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Calculation of the Noise Temperature of Microwave Transistor Low-Temperature Noise Generators

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A method of calculating the noise temperature of a microwave transistor low-temperature noise generator by using reference data on the noise parameters and the coefficients of the scattering matrix of the transistor is developed for the 8–40 GHz frequency band.

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Aderikhin, V.I., Dorofeev, A.A., Topol'nitskii, V.N. et al. Calculation of the Noise Temperature of Microwave Transistor Low-Temperature Noise Generators. Measurement Techniques 45, 201–209 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1015556125278

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