A new method for high-sensitivity noise measurements

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 656-659

  Ciofi, Carmine ^a   Crupi, Felice ^a   Pace, Calogero ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MESSINA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Correlation; Noise measurement; Spectral analysis; Time domain analysis

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFIERS (ELECTRONIC); CORRELATION METHODS; DISCRETE FOURIER TRANSFORMS; ELECTRIC CURRENTS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; MOSFET DEVICES; RESISTORS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; SPECTRUM ANALYZERS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

CROSS CORRELATION TECHNIQUE; HIGH SENSITIVITY NOISE MEASUREMENT; TRANSIMPEDANCE AMPLIFIERS;

SIGNAL NOISE MEASUREMENT;

EID: 0036703604     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2002.803080     Document Type: Article

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