An integrated subharmonic coupled-oscillator scheme for a 60-GHz phased-array transmitter

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 54, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 4271-4279

  Buckwalter, James F ^a,b,c   Babakhani, Aydin ^a,b   Komijani, Abbas ^a,b   Hajimiri, All ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b California Institute of Technology   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

BiCMOS integrated circuits; Coupled oscillator; Mutual injection locking; Phased arrays

Indexed keywords

COUPLED OSCILLATORS; FREQUENCY DEMONSTRATION; MUTUAL INJECTION LOCKING; PHASED ARRAYS;

ANTENNA PHASED ARRAYS; BICMOS TECHNOLOGY; HARMONIC GENERATION; INTERCONNECTION NETWORKS; TRANSMITTERS;

OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC);

EID: 33847743085     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2006.885581     Document Type: Article

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