Low-noise parametric resonant amplifier

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers

Volumn 58, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 479-492

  Lee, Wooram ^a   Afshari, Ehsan ^a  

^a Cornell University   (United States)

Author keywords

Distributed system; low noise amplifier (LNA); noise squeezing; nonlinear capacitor; parametric amplification; phase matching; phase sensitive gain

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTED DATABASE SYSTEMS; NOISE FIGURE; OPTICAL PARAMETRIC AMPLIFIERS; PARAMETRIC AMPLIFIERS; PHASE MATCHING;

DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS; NOISE-SQUEEZING; NONLINEAR CAPACITOR; PARAMETRIC AMPLIFICATION; PHASE SENSITIVE;

LOW NOISE AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 79952004188     PISSN: 15498328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCSI.2010.2072370     Document Type: Article

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