Effect of baseband impedance on FET intermodulation

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 1045-1051

  Brinkhoff, James ^a   Parker, Anthony Edward ^a  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

FET amplifiers; Impedance; Intermodulation distortion; Nonlinear distortion; Volterra series

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFIERS (ELECTRONIC); FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTORS; INTERMODULATION; NONLINEAR DISTORTION;

ADJACENT CHANNEL POWER RATIO; VOLTERRA SERIES;

ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE;

EID: 0037359890     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2003.808704     Document Type: Article

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