Continuous tunable phase shifter based on injection locked local oscillators at 30 GHz

IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium Digest

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 1821-1824

  Grubinger, Hannes ^a   Von Büren, George ^a   Barth, Helmut ^a   Vahldieck, Rüdiger ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

BiCMOS integrated circuits; Injection locked oscillators; LTCC; Phase shifters; Voltage controlled oscillators

Indexed keywords

BICMOS TECHNOLOGY; MICROWAVE OSCILLATORS; PHASE NOISE; TUNING; VARIABLE FREQUENCY OSCILLATORS;

CONTINUOUS TUNABLE PHASE SHIFTS; INJECTION LOCKED OSCILLATORS; INJECTION LOCKING;

PHASE SHIFTERS;

EID: 34250349631     PISSN: 0149645X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/MWSYM.2006.249749     Document Type: Conference Paper

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