Noise Parameters Computation of Microwave Devices Using Genetic Algorithms

Han-Yu CHEN  Guo-Wei HUANG  Kun-Ming CHEN  Chun-Yen CHANG 

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Electronics  Vol.E88-C  No.7  pp.1382-1384
Publication Date: 2005/07/01
Online ISSN: 
Print ISSN: 0916-8516
Type of Manuscript: Special Section LETTER (Special Section on Recent Technologies of Microwave and Millimeter-Wave Devices Focusing on Miniaturization and Advancement in Performance with Their Applications)
Category: Active Circuits & Antenna
Keyword: 
noisy two-port,  noise parameters,  genetic algorithm, 

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Summary: 
In this letter, a new computation method for the noise parameters of a linear noisy two-port network is introduced. A new error function, which considers noise figure and source admittance error simultaneously, is proposed to estimate the four noise parameters. The global optimization of the error function is searched directly by using a genetic algorithm.