A low-phase-noise voltage-controlled oscillator for 17-GHz applications

IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 191-193

  Scuderi, Angelo ^a,b   Palmisano, Giuseppe ^b  

^a IEEE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Integrated transformer; Silicon bipolar technology; Voltage controlled oscillator (VCO); Wireless local area networking (WLAN)

Indexed keywords

INTEGRATED TRANSFORMERS; SILICON BIPOLAR TECHNOLOGY; VOLTAGE-CONTROLLED OSCILLATOR (VCO); WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKING (WLAN);

BIPOLAR INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; ELECTRIC NETWORK TOPOLOGY; ELECTRIC TRANSFORMERS; FREQUENCY DOUBLERS; LOCAL AREA NETWORKS; OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC); SEMICONDUCTING SILICON; VOLTAGE CONTROL;

VARIABLE FREQUENCY OSCILLATORS;

EID: 33645670357     PISSN: 15311309     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LMWC.2006.872127     Document Type: Article

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