Direct extraction of all four transistor noise parameters from 50Ω noise figure measurements

Electronics Letters

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 289-291

  Lazaro A ^a   Pradell, L ^a   Beltran A ^a   O'Callaghan, J M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EQUIVALENT CIRCUITS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; TRANSISTORS;

DIRECT EXTRACTION METHOD; NOISE FIGURE MEASUREMENT;

SIGNAL NOISE MEASUREMENT;

EID: 0032484871     PISSN: 00135194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/el:19980192     Document Type: Article

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