act* 



CONTENTS 



5.3 Power Expression and Its Transformation 



5.4 The General Characteristic-Noise Matrix 



CHAPTER 6 Noise Measure 



CHAPTER 7 



6.1 Extended Definitions of Gain and Noise Figure 



6.2 Matrix Formulation of Exchangeable Power and Noise 

 Figure 



Noise Measure 



Allowed Ranges of Values of the Noise Measure 

 Arbitrary Passive Interconnection of Amplifiers 



Network Realization of Optimum Amplifier Noise Per- 

 formance 



7 . 1 Classification of Two-Terminal-Pair Amplifiers 

 Optimization of Amplifier, Indefinite Case 

 The Optimum Noise-Measure Expression for the Con- 

 ventional Low-Frequency Vacuum Tube 

 Optimization of Negative-Resistance Amplifiers, 

 Definite Case 



6.3 

 6.4 

 6.5 



7.2 

 7.3 



7.4 



CHAPTER 8 Conclusions 



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