A 17 dBm 64 GHz voltage controlled oscillator with power amplifier in a 0.13 μm SiGe BiCMOS technology

Digest of Papers - IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages 29-32

  Welch, Brian ^a   Pfeiffer, Ullrich ^a  

^a IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Millimeter wave (mmWave); Power amplifier (PA); Silicon germanium (SiGe); Voltage controlled oscillator (VCO)

Indexed keywords

BUFFERING; CASCODE AMPLIFIERS; SILICON GERMANIUM (SIGE);

CAPACITANCE; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; MILLIMETER WAVES; POWER AMPLIFIERS; POWER CONTROL; SEMICONDUCTING SILICON COMPOUNDS;

VARIABLE FREQUENCY OSCILLATORS;

EID: 33845896607     PISSN: 15292517     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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