Rigorous determination of the stability of linear n-node circuits from network determinants and the appropriate role of the stability factor K of their reduced two-ports

The generally accepted method of ascertaining the stability of microwave circuits, i.e. reducing the complicated N-node networks to Two-Ports between input and output, and requiring that K>1 and.

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