The Role of Baseband Noise and Its Upconversion in HBT Oscillator Phase Noise

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 43, Issue 7, 1995, Pages 1461-1471

  Tutt, Marcel N ^a,b   Pavlidis, Dimitris ^a   Khatibzadeh, Ali ^b   Bayraktaroglu, Burhan ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b TEXAS INSTRUMENTS   (United States)

^c WESTINGHOUSE ELECTRIC COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC CURRENTS; FREQUENCIES; HETEROJUNCTION BIPOLAR TRANSISTORS; MICROWAVE CIRCUITS; MICROWAVE OSCILLATORS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

BASEBAND NOISE; COLLECTOR CURRENT; DIELECTRIC RESONATOR OSCILLATOR; NOISE SPECTRAL DENSITY; OSCILLATOR PHASE NOISE; UPCONVERSION;

RESONATORS;

EID: 0029344440     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: 15579670     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/22.392903     Document Type: Article

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