Evaluation of noise parameter extraction methods

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 1993, Pages 382-387

  Escotte, Laurent ^a   Plana, Robert ^a   Graffeuil, Jacques ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PAUL SABATIER   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MICROWAVE DEVICES; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; STATISTICAL METHODS;

ACTIVE MICROWAVE DEVICES; NOISE PARAMETER EXTRACTION METHODS;

SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

EID: 0027554576     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: 15579670     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/22.223735     Document Type: Article

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