Small-Signal Third-Order Distortion Analysis of Transistor Amplifiers

Abstract

When a sinusoidal signal is applied to a nonlinear system, the signals which result internally and at the output of the system can, in the steady state, be decomposed into a sum of sinusoids whose frequencies are various integer multiples of the frequency of the input signal. That component which has frequency three times the frequency of the input signal is commonly referred to as third order distortion.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 1976
Accession Number
ADA038270

Entities

People

  • J. D. Cobb

Organizations

  • University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Bipolar Junction Transistors
  • Circuit Analysis
  • Distortion
  • Electronics Laboratories
  • Equations
  • Field Effect Transistors
  • Frequency
  • Generators
  • Modules (Electronics)
  • Nonlinear Dynamics
  • Nonlinear Systems
  • Npn Transistors
  • Resistance
  • Transfer Functions
  • Transistor Amplifiers
  • Transistors

Fields of Study

  • Engineering

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  • Control Systems Engineering.
  • Electronics Engineering