A low phase noise 10 GHz VCO in 0.18μm CMOS process

35th European Microwave Conference 2005 - Conference Proceedings

Volumn 3, Issue , 2005, Pages 1731-1734

  Choi, Tae Young ^a   Lee, Hanil ^b   Katehi, Linda P B ^b   Mohammadi, Saeed ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; ELECTRIC POWER DISTRIBUTION; TUNING;

OUTPUT POWER; PHASE NOISE; TUNING RANGE;

VARIABLE FREQUENCY OSCILLATORS;

EID: 33847138655     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/EUMC.2005.1610293     Document Type: Conference Paper

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