Noise performance of negative-resistance compensated microwave bandpass filters-theory and experiments

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 49, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 924-927

  Cheng, Kwok Keung M ^a,b   Chan, Hil Yee ^b  

^a IEEE   (Hong Kong)

^b CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Microwave active filters; Negative resistance; Noise figure

Indexed keywords

MICROWAVE ACTIVE FILTERS; NEGATIVE RESISTANCE CIRCUITS;

ACTIVE FILTERS; BANDPASS FILTERS; MESFET DEVICES; NEGATIVE RESISTANCE; OPTIMIZATION; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

MICROWAVE FILTERS;

EID: 0034991615     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/22.920150     Document Type: Article

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