A general technique for the calculation of the distortion generated by a diode with series resistance

Abstract

A featurn a f many circuiu which incorporate non-linenr fecdbnak is the aeries combinntiun oi a diodo and resistor. A toehniquo has been devised fur celculoting hunnonic pr*xlucts cmder conditioas of low bias current and large signel level which were formerly difficult to anal~se. The rosults of this technique are compared with urperimentnl mcnsurernents.

Harmonic and intermodulation performance of logarithmic-law devices excited by multisinusoidal signals

“…It is worthwile to point out here that (I) can be written in the form With ~( t ) representing the current and y(t) representing the voltage, (25) has been extensively used in predicting the amplitudes of the harmonic and intermodulation current components resulting from exciting a p n junction by a multisinusoidal voltage (Orloff 1964, Stoodley 1964, Krisilov 1965, Gretsch 1966, Beane 1971, Stewart and Gardiner 1971, Rowlands and Stanley 1974, Nemlikher and Strukov 1974, Byelov 1975, Gusinskiy et al 1977, Soloshek 1978, Lipkovich 1979. The results obtained by these workers are not directly applicable to the logarithmic-law devices, however.…”