Extremely low thermal noise floor, high power oscillators using surface transverse wave devices

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 20-29

  Avramov, Ivan D ^a   Walls, Fred L ^b   Parker, Thomas E ^c   Montress, Gary K ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF SOLID STATE PHYSICS   (Bulgaria)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c RAYTHEON COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC SURFACE WAVE FILTERS; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC); PERFORMANCE; POWER AMPLIFIERS; RESONATORS; THERMAL NOISE; VOLTAGE CONTROL;

COUPLED RESONATOR FILTER; SURFACE TRANSVERSE WAVE OSCILLATOR; VOLTAGE CONTROLLED OSCILLATOR;

ACOUSTIC SURFACE WAVE DEVICES;

EID: 0029735575     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/58.484459     Document Type: Article

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