A theory of high-frequency distortion in bipolar transistors

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 51, Issue 2 I, 2003, Pages 448-461

  Vaidyanathan, Mani ^a   Iwamoto, Masaya ^a   Larson, Lawrence E ^a   Gudem, Prasad S ^b,c   Asbeck, Peter M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c QUALCOMM INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Current cancellation; Harmonic distortion; Heterojunction and homojunction bipolar transistors; High frequency distortion; Intermodulation distortion; Linearity; Nonlinear distortion; Unity current gain frequency; Volterra series

Indexed keywords

FEEDBACK; INTERMODULATION; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; NONLINEAR DISTORTION;

HIGH-FREQUENCY DISTORTION;

BIPOLAR TRANSISTORS;

EID: 0037291069     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2002.807821     Document Type: Article

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