Intermodulation distortion of third-order nonlinear systems with memory under multisine excitations

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 55, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1264-1271

  Martins, João Paulo ^a,b   Carvalho, Nuno Borges ^a,b   Pedro, José Carlos ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AVEIRO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Measurements; Memory effects; Nonlinear systems; Waveform analysis

Indexed keywords

CLOSED FORM EXPRESSIONS; MEMORY EFFECTS; MODULATED SIGNALS; MULTISINE EXCITATIONS;

FREQUENCY MODULATION; INTERMODULATION DISTORTION; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

NONLINEAR SYSTEMS;

EID: 34250197239     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2007.896794     Document Type: Conference Paper

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