Analysis of distortion in tunable ferroelectric capacitors

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 57, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1263-1266

  Zhang, Yulan ^a   Kalkur, T ^a  

^a University of Colorado at Colorado Springs   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FERROELECTRIC CAPACITORS; MEASURED RESULTS; NON-LINEARITY; PARALLEL RESONANT CIRCUIT; SIMULATED RESULTS; TUNABLE FERROELECTRICS; VOLTAGE CHARACTERISTICS;

CAPACITORS; FERROELECTRIC DEVICES; FERROELECTRICITY; RESONANT CIRCUITS;

CAPACITANCE;

EID: 77953240923     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2010.1546     Document Type: Article

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