Simple derivation of the thermal noise formula using window-limited fourier transforms and other conundrums

IEEE Transactions on Education

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 1-13

  Abbott, Derek ^a,b,c   Davis, Bruce R ^a,b,c   Phillips, Nicholas J ^e   Eshraghian, Kamran ^b,c,d  

^a IEEE

^b UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^c Centre for Gallium Arsenide VLSI Technology   (Australia)

^d EDITH COWAN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^e DE MONTFORT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONS; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; ENGINEERING EDUCATION; FOURIER TRANSFORMS;

JOHNSON NYQUIST NOISE; JOHNSON THERMAL NOISE; WINDOW LIMITED THERMAL NOISE;

SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

EID: 0030085330     PISSN: 00189359     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/13.485226     Document Type: Article

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