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Physica C Superconductivity

High-speed operation of front-end circuit of analog-to-digital converter

Futoshi Furuta, K. Saitoh, Katsuaki Takagi

Published Jun 30, 2003• 3 citations
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10.1016/s0921-4534(03)01050-5

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