Nonlinear time-domain analysis of injectionlocked microwave MESFET oscillators

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 45, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 1050-1057

  Dixon, Jonathan ^a,b   Bradley, Elizabeth ^b   Popovic, Zoya B ^b  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b University of Colorado at Boulder   (United States)

Author keywords

Chaos; Injection locking; Nonlinear modeling; Transistor oscillator

Indexed keywords

CHAOS THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MESFET DEVICES; NUMERICAL METHODS; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE MODELS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

INJECTION LOCKING; VAN DER POL EQUATIONS;

MICROWAVE OSCILLATORS;

EID: 0031186147     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/22.598440     Document Type: Article

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