A 40 GHz VCO with 9 to 15% tuning range in 0.13μm SOI CMOS

IEEE Symposium on VLSI Circuits, Digest of Technical Papers

Volumn , Issue CIRCUITS SYMP., 2002, Pages 186-189

  Fong, Neric ^a   Plouchart, Jean Olivier ^b   Zamdmer, Noah ^c   Liu, Duixian ^b   Wagner, Lawrence ^c   Plett, Calvin ^a   Tarr, Garry ^a  

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c IBM MICROELECTRONICS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPACITANCE; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLIES TO APPARATUS; MONOLITHIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; SIGNAL NOISE MEASUREMENT; SILICON ON INSULATOR TECHNOLOGY; TUNING; VARACTORS;

FREQUENCY TUNING; PHASE NOISE;

VARIABLE FREQUENCY OSCILLATORS;

EID: 0242695780     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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