High-efficiency harmonic loaded oscillator with low bias using a nonlinear design approach

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 47, Issue 9 PART 1, 1999, Pages 1670-1679

  Lee, Moon Que ^a   Yi, Seung June ^b   Nam, Sangwook ^c   Kwon, Youngwoo ^d   Yeom, Kyung Whan ^e  

^a Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute ^*

^b Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI)   (South Korea)

^c Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^d LG   (South Korea)

^e Chungnam National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Harmonic loaded oscillator; Harmonic loading; High efficiency oscillator; Load line; Microwave oscillator; Oscillator stability; Stability

Indexed keywords

DIRECT CURRENT BIAS CURRENT SHIFT;

NONLINEAR CONTROL SYSTEMS; SYSTEM STABILITY;

MICROWAVE OSCILLATORS;

EID: 0033363205     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/22.788608     Document Type: Article

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