Design of wide-tuning-range millimeter-wave CMOS VCO with a standing-wave architecture

IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits

Volumn 42, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 1942-1952

  Chien, Jun Chau ^a,b   Lu, Liang Hung ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

CMOS millimeter wave circuits; Standing wave oscillators; Switched transmission lines; Wide tuning range VCOs

Indexed keywords

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; ELECTRIC LINES; ELECTRIC NETWORK TOPOLOGY; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; PRODUCT DESIGN; VARACTORS;

CMOS MILLIMETER-WAVE CIRCUITS; FREQUENCY TUNING; STANDING-WAVE OSCILLATORS; SWITCHED TRANSMISSION LINES; WIDE-TUNING-RANGE VCOS;

VARIABLE FREQUENCY OSCILLATORS;

EID: 34548307061     PISSN: 00189200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2007.903050     Document Type: Conference Paper

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