Direct extraction of all four transistor noise parameters from 50Ω noise figure measurements

被引:5
作者
Lazaro, A [1 ]
Pradell, L [1 ]
Beltran, A [1 ]
O'Callaghan, JM [1 ]
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[1] Univ Politecn Catalunya, Dept TSC, ES-08034 Barcelona, Spain
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10.1049/el:19980192
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TM [电工技术]; TN [电子技术、通信技术];
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0808 ; 0809 ;
摘要
A new method for measuring the four noise parameters (NPs) of a transistor is presented. It is based on the determination of its intrinsic noise matrix elements (C-11(INT), C-22(INT), Re(C-12(INT)) Im(C-12(INT))) by fitting the measured device noise figure for a matched source reflection coefficient (F-50) at a number of frequency points. In contrast to previous works, no restrictive assumptions are made on the intrinsic noise sources.
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