A fundamental VCO with integrated output buffer beyond 120 GHz in SiGe bipolar technology

IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium Digest

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 645-648

  Trotta, Saverio ^a,b   Knapp, Herbert ^a   Aufinger, Klaus ^a   Meister, Thomas F ^a   Bock, Josef ^a   Simbürger, Werner ^a   Scholtz, Arpad L ^b  

^a INFINEON TECHNOLOGIES AG   (Germany)

^b VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Heterojunction bipolar transistor; Millimeter wave circuits; SiGe; VCO; Voltage controlled oscillator

Indexed keywords

BUFFER CIRCUITS; HETEROJUNCTION BIPOLAR TRANSISTORS; LOW NOISE AMPLIFIERS; MILLIMETER WAVE DEVICES; PHASE NOISE; SEMICONDUCTING SILICON COMPOUNDS;

BIPOLAR TECHNOLOGY; OFFSET FREQUENCY; OSCILLATION FREQUENCY;

VARIABLE FREQUENCY OSCILLATORS;

EID: 34748903588     PISSN: 0149645X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/MWSYM.2007.379984     Document Type: Conference Paper

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