Why Circuits Oscillate Spuriously, Part 2: Amplifiers
by Dennis L. Feucht
Innovatia Laboratories
In Part 1 of this article we examined spurious oscillations caused by parasitic
reactances that form resonant circuits, and also resonances caused by impedance
gyrations in the high-frequency (hf) region of operation of active devices.
This second cause is not well known in the industry, but should be. This
article continues with a practical example of how hf gyration theory can
be applied to a pulse amplifier design. Then we consider how amplifier hf
output inductance can resonate with output capacitance.
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