Citation: | SU Jiangtao, CAI Jialing, ZHENG Xing, et al., “A Fast Two-Tone Active Load-Pull Algorithm for Assessing the Non-linearity of RF Devices,” Chinese Journal of Electronics, vol. 31, no. 1, pp. 25-32, 2022, doi: 10.1049/cje.2020.00.060 |
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