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Physics of Measurement

Fall 2018

 

 

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Lecture 1  /  Coupling, Responsivity, Noise, and Backaction  (2 Oct 2018)

Lecture 2  /  Dynamic Range; Cascaded Systems;  Spectral Densities and Correlation Functions (4 Oct 2018)

Lecture 3  /  Dynamic Range, cont'd;  Physics of Noise, part I (9 Oct 2018)

Lecture 4  /  Physics of Noise, part II (11 Oct 2018)

Lecture 5  /  Noise Metrics;  Multi-terminal Measurements (16 Oct 2018)

Lecture 6  /  Amplifier Noise;  Semiconductor Device Noise (18 Oct 2018)

Lecture 7  /  Transformer-based Noise Matching (30 Oct 2018)

Lecture 8  /  Resonant Impedance Transformations;  Parallel Amplifier Schemes (1 Nov 2018)

Lecture 9  /  Cross-Correlation Measurements;  Real Components (6 Nov 2018)

Lecture 10  /  Nonlinearity, Distortion, & Intermodulation;  Modulation Theory, I (8 Nov 2018)

Lecture 11  /  Modulation Theory, II; Frequency Conversion (13 Nov 2018)

Lecture 12  /  Mixers - Theory / Implementation; "The Physics of Averaging" (15 Nov 2018)

Lecture 13  /  Synchronous Detection, I (16 Nov 2018)

Lecture 14  /  Synchronous Detection, II; Bridges (19 Nov 2018)

Lecture 15  /  Applications; Network Analysis, I (20 Nov 2018)

 

   
 
 

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