Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Volume 2010 (2010), Article ID 537132, 4 pages
doi:10.1155/2010/537132
Research Article

How to Model the Near-to-the-Carrier Regime and the Lower Knee Frequency of Real RF Oscillators

Arsenia Chorti1,2

1Department of Computer Communications, EIS Middlesex University, London, NW4 4BT, UK
2EEE Department, University College London, London, WC1E 7JE, UK

Received 17 August 2009; Accepted 15 October 2009

Academic Editor: Shen-Iuan Liu

Copyright © 2010 Arsenia Chorti. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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