Thermal Noise in Nonlinear Resistive Devices and its Circuit Representation

Proceedings of the IEEE

Volumn 70, Issue 8, 1982, Pages 788-804

  Gupta, Madhu S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC NETWORKS,NONLINEAR - MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

NONLINEAR RESISTIVE DEVICES;

NOISE, SPURIOUS SIGNAL - THERMAL NOISE;

EID: 0020172217     PISSN: 00189219     EISSN: 15582256     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/PROC.1982.12405     Document Type: Article

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