Numerical analysis of nonlinear distortion generated from a single varactor and an anti-series varactor pair

IEICE Transactions on Electronics

Volumn E85-C, Issue 12 SPEC., 2002, Pages 1990-1999

  Akaike, Masami ^a   Ohira, Takashi ^b   Inagaki, Keizo ^b   Han, Qing ^b  

^a TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b ADVANCED TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE INTERNATIONAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Anti series; Harmonic distortion; Nonlinear analysis; Nonlinear distortion; Varactor

Indexed keywords

CAPACITANCE; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; MICROWAVE CIRCUITS; MICROWAVE DEVICES; NONLINEAR DISTORTION; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; SIGNAL GENERATORS; VARIABLE FREQUENCY OSCILLATORS; VOLTAGE CONTROL;

AN-SERIES VARACTOR PAIR; CAPACITANCE-VOLTAGE CHARACTERISTIC; NONLINEAR ANALYSIS; SINGLE VARACTOR;

VARACTORS;

EID: 0037001848     PISSN: 09168524     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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