W/-band HEMT-Oscillator MMICs using subharmonic injection locking

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 48, Issue 12, 2000, Pages 2526-2532

  Kudszus, Steffen ^a  

^a FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED SOLID STATE PHYSICS IAF   (Germany)

Author keywords

Coplanar waveguides; Injection locked oscillators; Millimeter wave generation; Modfets; Monolithic microwave integrated circuits (mmics); Phase noise; Voltage controlled oscillators

Indexed keywords

HARMONIC GENERATION; HIGH ELECTRON MOBILITY TRANSISTORS; MILLIMETER WAVES; PHASE LOCKED LOOPS; SEMICONDUCTING GALLIUM ARSENIDE; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; SYNCHRONIZATION; VARIABLE FREQUENCY OSCILLATORS; WAVEGUIDES;

INJECTION LOCKED OSCILLATORS; SUBHARMONIC INJECTION LOCKING;

MONOLITHIC MICROWAVE INTEGRATED CIRCUITS;

EID: 0034431329     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/22.899008     Document Type: Article

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