"Deglorifying" the maximum power transfer theorem and factors in impedance selection

IEEE Transactions on Education

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 251-255

  McLaughlin, James C ^a   Kaiser, Kenneth L ^a  

^a KETTERING UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Conjugate matching; Impedance matching; Maximum power transfer theorem; Noise matching; Voltage matching

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING; EQUIVALENT CIRCUITS; IMPEDANCE MATCHING (ELECTRIC);

CONJUGATE MATCHING; MAXIMUM POWER TRANSFER THEOREM; NOISE MATCHING; VOLTAGE MATCHING;

ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS;

EID: 34548243732     PISSN: 00189359     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TE.2007.900030     Document Type: Article

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