RF HBT oscillators with low-phase noise and high-power performance utilizing (λ/4 ± δ) open-stubs resonator

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers

Volumn 53, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1670-1682

  Hosoya, Ken'ichi ^a   Tanaka, Shin'ichi ^a   Amamiya, Yasushi ^a   Niwa, Takaki ^a   Shimawaki, Hidenori ^a   Honjo, Kazuhiko ^b  

^a NEC CORPORATION   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRO COMMUNICATIONS   (Japan)

Author keywords

Microwave oscillators; Millimeter wave oscillators; Phase noise; Q factor; Transmission line resonators

Indexed keywords

HETEROJUNCTION BIPOLAR TRANSISTORS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; RESONATORS; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

COUPLING COEFFICIENT; MILLIMETER WAVE OSCILLATORS; PHASE NOISE; TRANSMISSION LINE RESONATORS;

MICROWAVE OSCILLATORS;

EID: 33747854195     PISSN: 10577122     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCSI.2006.879045     Document Type: Article

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