Distortion in single-, two- and three-stage amplifiers

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers

Volumn 52, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 846-856

  Hernes, Bjørnar ^a,b   Sansen, Willy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Analog integrated circuits; Feedback amplifiers; Harmonic distortion; Nonlinear distortion; Operational amplifiers

Indexed keywords

CAPACITANCE; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; FEEDBACK AMPLIFIERS; HARMONIC DISTORTION; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; NONLINEAR DISTORTION; POLES AND ZEROS; TRANSCONDUCTANCE; TRANSFER FUNCTIONS; TRANSISTORS;

ANALOG INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; MILLER OPERATIONAL AMPLIFIERS;

OPERATIONAL AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 20144381807     PISSN: 10577122     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCSI.2005.846214     Document Type: Article

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