SiGe integrated mm-wave push-push VCOs with reduced power consumption

Digest of Papers - IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages 433-436

  Wanner, Robert ^a   Lachner, Rudolf ^b   Olbrich, Gerhard R ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b INFINEON TECHNOLOGIES AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; BIPOLAR TRANSISTORS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRIC POWER UTILIZATION; FREQUENCIES; MILLIMETER WAVES; MIM DEVICES; VARIABLE FREQUENCY OSCILLATORS;

AUTOMOTIVE RADAR APPLICATIONS; SIDEBAND PHASE NOISE; TRANSMISSION-LINE COMPONENTS;

SILICON COMPOUNDS;

EID: 33845886160     PISSN: 15292517     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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