Variable termination unit for noise-parameter measurement

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 58, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1072-1077

  Gu, Dazhen ^a   Walker, David K ^a   Randa, James ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Amplifier noise parameters; Noise measurement; Source pull technique; Uncertainty analysis

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE MEASUREMENT; AUDIO FREQUENCY AMPLIFIERS; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT;

AMPLIFIER NOISE PARAMETERS; FREQUENCY RANGES; LOW-NOISE AMPLIFIERS; MANUAL METHODS; MEASURED RESULTS; NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGIES; NOISE MEASUREMENT; NOISE PARAMETERS; PARAMETER MEASUREMENTS; SOURCE PULL TECHNIQUE; TIME EFFICIENCIES;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 63449116381     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2008.2007055     Document Type: Conference Paper

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