Wave Techniques for Noise Modeling and Measurement

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 40, Issue 11, 1992, Pages 2004-2012

  Wedge, Scott W ^a   Rutledge, David B ^b  

^a EEsof ^*  (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EQUIVALENT CIRCUITS; HIGH ELECTRON MOBILITY TRANSISTORS; LINEAR NETWORKS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; MESFET DEVICES;

HEMT NOISE; MESFET NOISE; NOISE MODELING/MEASUREMENTS; NOISE WAVE CORRELATION MATRICES; NOISE WAVE REPRESENTATION;

SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

EID: 0026943152     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: 15579670     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/22.168757     Document Type: Article

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