Design of push-push and triple-push oscillators for reducing 1 / f noise upconversion

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 53, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 3407-3414

  Choi, Jonghoon ^a,b   Mortazawi, Amir ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Field effect transistor (FET) oscillators; Microwave oscillators; Oscillator noise; Phase noise

Indexed keywords

FIELD-EFFECT TRANSISTORS (FET) OSCILLATORS; HARMONIC COMPONENTS; OSCILLATOR NOISE; PHASE NOISE;

FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTORS; FREQUENCIES; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; OSCILLATIONS; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

MICROWAVE OSCILLATORS;

EID: 28144457178     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2005.858382     Document Type: Conference Paper

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