A 18-GHz silicon bipolar VCO with transformer-based resonator

Digest of Papers - IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages 441-444

  Scuderi, Angelo ^a   Ragonese, Egidio ^a   Biondi, Tonio ^b   Palmisano, Giuseppe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

^b STMICROELECTRONICS   (Italy)

Author keywords

Integrated transformer; Patterned ground shield; Silicon technology; Voltage controlled oscillator

Indexed keywords

NATURAL FREQUENCIES; OPTIMIZATION; OSCILLATIONS; RESONATORS; VARIABLE FREQUENCY OSCILLATORS;

INTEGRATED TRANSFORMER; PATTERNED GROUND SHIELD; SILICON TECHNOLOGY;

SILICON ON INSULATOR TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 33845886159     PISSN: 15292517     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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