(Almost) Half of Any Circuit's Operating Points are Unstable

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Fundamental Theory and Applications

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 1994, Pages 286-293

  Green, Michael M ^a   Willson, Alan N ^b  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPACITORS; CIRCUIT THEORY; ELECTRIC INDUCTORS; ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS; LINEAR INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; LINEARIZATION; MATRIX ALGEBRA; POLYNOMIALS; STABILITY CRITERIA; SYSTEM STABILITY; THEOREM PROVING; VECTORS;

DEGREE THEORY; OPERATING POINTS; SHUNT CAPACITORS;

ACTIVE NETWORKS;

EID: 0028413190     PISSN: 10577122     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/81.285683     Document Type: Article

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