Causality and negative group delays in a simple bandpass amplifier

American Journal of Physics

Volumn 66, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 14-19

  Mitchell, Morgan W ^a   Chiao, Raymond Y ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 0032326366     PISSN: 00029505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1119/1.18813     Document Type: Article

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