Differential VCO and frequency tripler using SiGe HBTs for the 24 GHz ISM band

IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium, RFIC, Digest of Technical Papers

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 277-280

  Danesh, Mina ^a   Gruson, Frank ^b   Abele, Peter ^b   Schumacher, Hermann ^b  

^a HARRIS CORPORATION   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; FREQUENCY TRIPLERS; HETEROJUNCTION BIPOLAR TRANSISTORS; SEMICONDUCTING SILICON COMPOUNDS; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; VOLTAGE CONTROL;

FREQUENCY SOURCE GENERATOR CHIPS;

VARIABLE FREQUENCY OSCILLATORS;

EID: 0041589179     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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