Improvement of Third-Order Intermodulation Product of RF and Microwave Amplifiers by Injection

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 49, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 1148-1154

  Aitchison, Colin S ^a   Mbabele, Modeste ^a   Reza Moazzam, M ^b   Budimir, Djuradi ^c   Ali, Fazal ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

^b SIEMENS CORPORATE RESEARCH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTMINSTER   (United Kingdom)

^d NOKIA RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Intermodulation; intermodulation distortion; microwave power amplifiers; radio frequency amplifiers

Indexed keywords

EID: 85008049430     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: 15579670     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/22.925508     Document Type: Article

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