Envelope transient analysis of self-oscillating mixers

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 1090-1100

  De Cos, Elena ^a   Suárez, Almudena ^a   Sancho, Sergio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTABRIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Envelope transient; Intermodulation distortion; Self oscillating mixer (SOM); Sub synchronization

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OSCILLATIONS; SIGNAL GENERATORS; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; SYNCHRONIZATION;

ENVELOPE TRANSIENTS; INTERMODULATION DISTORTION; OSCILLATION FREQUENCY; SELF-OSCILLATING MIXERS;

MESFET DEVICES;

EID: 2442598106     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2004.825708     Document Type: Article

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