Using noise to break the noise barrier in circuits

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5649, Issue PART 1, 2005, Pages 53-66

  Martorell, Ferran ^a   McDonnell, Mark D ^b   Rubio, Antonio ^a   Abbott, Derek ^b  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Low SNR signal processing; Noise; Nonlinear circuits; Stochastic resonance; Suprathreshold stochastic resonance

Indexed keywords

GATES (TRANSISTOR); MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NETWORKS (CIRCUITS); RANDOM PROCESSES; RESONANCE; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; STATISTICAL METHODS;

LOW SNR SIGNAL PROCESSING; NONLINEAR CIRCUITS; STOCHASTIC RESONANCE; SUPRATHRESHOLD STOCHASTIC RESONANCE;

SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

EID: 20044384551     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.582597     Document Type: Conference Paper

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