A low phase noise 52-GHz push-push VCO in 0.18-μm bulk CMOS technologies

Digest of Papers - IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 131-134

  Cho, Yi Hsien ^a   Tsai, Ming Da ^a   Chang, Hong Yeh ^a   Chang, Chia Chi ^a   Wang, Huei ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

CMOS; Thin film microstrip line; VCO

Indexed keywords

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; MICROSTRIP DEVICES; THIN FILMS; VARIABLE FREQUENCY OSCILLATORS;

BULK CMOS; CONDUCTIVE SUBSTRATE; NEGATIVE CONDUCTANCE; THIN FILM MICROSTRIP LINE;

SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

EID: 27644582763     PISSN: 15292517     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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