Tunable ferroelectric capacitor-based voltage-controlled oscillator

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 222-226

  Jamil, Asad ^b   Kalkur, Thottam S ^a,b   Cramer, Nicholas ^a,c  

^a IEEE

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c Applied Ceramics Research   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HIGH FREQUENCY CIRCUIT APPLICATIONS; TUNABLE FERROELECTRIC CAPACITORS; VOLTAGE CONTROLLED OSCILLATOR (VCO);

BIPOLAR TRANSISTORS; CAPACITORS; ENERGY DISSIPATION; FERROELECTRIC DEVICES; VOLTAGE CONTROL;

OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC);

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC CAPACITANCE; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; ELECTRONICS; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; MAGNETISM; OSCILLOMETRY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; ELECTRIC CAPACITANCE; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; ELECTRONICS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; MAGNETICS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OSCILLOMETRY;

EID: 33847741433     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2007.314503     Document Type: Article

References (12)

1. 3 parallel plate capacitor," IEEE Microwave Guided Wave Lett., vol. 10, no. 1, pp. 10-12, Jan. 2000.
2. A. Tobmak, J. P. Maria, F. Ayguavives, Z. Jin, G. Stauf, A. Kingon, and A. Mortazawi, "Tunable BST thin film capacitor for RF and microwave applications," Microwave Wireless Components Lett., vol. 12, pp. 3-5, June 2002.
3. T. S. Kalkur, C. Cotey, K. Chen, and S. Sun, "Tunable voltage controlled oscillator (VCO) with high dielectric constant BCTZ capacitors," Integrated Ferroelect., vol. 56, pp. 1123-1129, 2003.
4. A. Victor, J. Nath, D. Ghosh, B. B. Boyette, J. P. Maria, M. B. Steer, A. I. Kingon, and G. T. Stauf, "Noise characteristics of an oscillator with a barium strontium titanate (BST) varactor," IEE Proceedings - Microwaves, Antennas and Propagation, vol. 153, no. 1, pp. 96-102, 2006.
5. B. Parzen, Design of Crystal and Other Harmonic Oscillators. New York: Wiley, 1983.
6. I. Bahl and P. Bhartia, Microwave Solid State Circuit Design. New York: Wiley Intersci., 1988.
7. A. Jamil, T. S. Kalkur, and N. Cramer, "Verilog - A modeling of ferroelectric high-K capacitors for tunable circuit applications," Integrated Ferroelect., vol. 66, pp. 163-170, 2004.
8. P. Andreani and S. Mattisson, "On the use of MOS varactors in RF VCOs," IEEE J. Solid State Circuits, vol. 35, pp. 905-910, 2000.
9. Y. Taur and T. H. Ning, Fundamentals of Modern VLSI Devices. New York: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1998.
10. A. Vorobiev, P. Rundqvist, K. Khamchane, and S. Gevorgian, "Silicon substrate integrated high Q-factor parallel-plate ferroelectric varactors for microwave/millimeter wave applications," Appl. Phys. Lett., vol. 83, pp. 3144-3146, 2003.
11. J. Craninckx and M. Steyaert, Wireless CMOS Frequency Synthesizer Design. Boston: Kluwer Academic, 1998.
12. G. W. Juette and L. E. Zeffanella, "Radio noise currents n short sections on bundle conductors," presented at IEEE Summer Power Meeting, Dallas, TX, June 22-27, 1990.