A noise-shifting differential Colpitts VCO

IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits

Volumn 37, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 1728-1736

  Aparicio, Roberto ^a   Hajimiri, Ali ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Analog integrated circuits; CMOS integrated circuits; LC oscillators; Optimization; Phase noise; Quadrature oscillators; Radio frequency; Voltage controlled oscillators

Indexed keywords

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; SWITCHING;

ANALOG INTEGRATED CIRCUITS;

VARIABLE FREQUENCY OSCILLATORS;

EID: 0036908707     PISSN: 00189200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2002.804354     Document Type: Conference Paper

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