Nonlinearity characterisation of microwave detectors for radiometer applications

Electronics Letters

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 224-225

  Narhi T ^a  

^a EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Microwave detectors; Radiometers

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; CORRELATION METHODS; ERROR DETECTION; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; HARMONIC GENERATION; INTERPOLATION; MEASUREMENT ERRORS; MICROWAVE DEVICES; RADIOMETERS; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

GAUSSIAN NOISE; IDEAL SQUARE LAW BEHAVIOR; MICROWAVE DETECTORS; NONLINEARITY; NONLINEARITY COEFFICIENTS; NONLINEARITY ERROR; TWO TONE TEST;

DETECTOR CIRCUITS;

EID: 0030082010     PISSN: 00135194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/el:19960109     Document Type: Article

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