1.9-GHz CMOS VCO with micromachined electromechanically tunable capacitors

IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits

Volumn 35, Issue 8, 2000, Pages 1231-1237

  Dec, Aleksander ^a,b   Suyama, Ken ^a,b  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^b Epoch Technologies   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPACITANCE MEASUREMENT; CAPACITORS; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC INDUCTORS; ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYZERS; ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLIES TO APPARATUS; ELECTRONICS PACKAGING; MICROMACHINING; Q FACTOR MEASUREMENT; RESONANT CIRCUITS; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

BONDING WIRE INDUCTOR; PHASE NOISE; POLYSILICON SURFACE MICROMACHINING PROCESS; SOFTWARE PACKAGE WINCAL; TUNABLE CAPACITORS;

VARIABLE FREQUENCY OSCILLATORS;

EID: 0034251157     PISSN: 00189200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/4.859516     Document Type: Article

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