A novel self-oscillating HEMT-HBT cascode VCO-mixer using an active tunable inductor

IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 870-875

  Kobayashi, Kevin W ^a,b   Oki, Aaron K ^a,b   Umemoto, Donald K ^a,b   Block, Tomas Ray ^b   Streit, Dwight C ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Active inductor; Cascode; HBT; HEMT; Mixer; Self oscillating mixer; VCO

Indexed keywords

HETEROJUNCTION BIPOLAR TRANSISTORS; HIGH ELECTRON MOBILITY TRANSISTORS; INTEGRATED CIRCUIT LAYOUT; LINEAR INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; MOLECULAR BEAM EPITAXY; MONOLITHIC MICROWAVE INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; RADIO SYSTEMS; RESONANT CIRCUITS; SEMICONDUCTING GALLIUM ARSENIDE; VARIABLE FREQUENCY OSCILLATORS;

ACTIVE TUNABLE INDUCTOR; DIGITAL RADIO APPLICATIONS; MILLIMETER WAVE MONOLITHIC MICROWAVE INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; SELF OSCILLATING MIXER;

MIXER CIRCUITS;

EID: 0032096798     PISSN: 00189200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/4.678648     Document Type: Article

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