A Ka-band micromachined low-phase-noise oscillator

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 47, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 1504-1508

  Brown, Andrew R ^a   Rebeiz, Gabriel M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

High q resonators; LMDS; Oscillators; Planar circuits

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; MICROMACHINING; RESONATORS; TRANSISTORS;

LOW-PHASE-NOISE OSCILLATORS;

OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC);

EID: 0032666332     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/22.780401     Document Type: Article

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