Low phase noise design of microwave oscillators (invited article)

International Journal of Microwave and Millimeter-Wave Computer-Aided Engineering

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 5-25

  Anzill, Werner ^a   Filleböck, Marion ^a   Russer, Peter ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; EQUIVALENT CIRCUITS; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NONLINEAR CONTROL SYSTEMS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; OPTIMIZATION; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

MONOLITHIC INTEGRATED MICROWAVE OSCILLATORS; NONLINEAR MODELING; PHASE NOISE; UNPERTURBED OSCILLATOR; VOLTERRA SERIES METHOD;

MICROWAVE OSCILLATORS;

EID: 9444268203     PISSN: 10501827     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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