Pulse Sharpening in a Uniform LC Ladder Network Containing Nonlinear Ferroelectric Capacitors

IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 1991, Pages 767-771

  Wilson, Colin Richard ^a   Turnei, Miles M ^a   Smith, Paul W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPACITORS, CERAMIC; ELECTRIC WAVEFORMS; FERROELECTRIC MATERIALS;

LADDER NETWORKS; NONLINEAR FERROELECTRIC CAPACITORS; PULSE POWER SYSTEMS; PULSE SHARPENING;

ELECTRIC NETWORKS, NONLINEAR;

EID: 0026142254     PISSN: 00189383     EISSN: 15579646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/16.75203     Document Type: Article

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