Delta-sigma modulator using a resonant-tunneling diode quantizer

IEICE Transactions on Electronics

Volumn E85-C, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 1219-1221

  Mutoh, Miwa ^a   Fukuyama, Hiroyuki ^a   Itoh, Toshihiro ^a   Enoki, Takatomo ^a   Shibata, Tsugumichi ^a  

^a NTT CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

A number of harmonics; Delta sigma modulator; Quantization noise; RTD quantizer; Three cascoded RTD quantizers

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISTORTION (WAVES); HARMONIC GENERATION; RESONANT TUNNELING; SEMICONDUCTOR DIODES; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

EFFECTIVE NUMBER OF BITS; HARMONICS; RESONANT TUNNELING DIODE QUANTIZER; SIGNAL TO NOISE AND DISTORTION RATIO; SOFTWARE PACKAGE HSPICE;

DELTA SIGMA MODULATION;

EID: 0036579502     PISSN: 09168524     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Letter

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