A 21.5/43-GHz dual-frequency balanced colpitts VCO in SiGe technology

IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits

Volumn 39, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 1352-1355

  Bao, Mingquan ^a   Li, Yinggang ^a   Jacobsson, Harald ^a  

^a Ericsson Microwave Systems AB   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Phase noise; SiGe BiCMOS; Voltage controlled oscillator (VCO)

Indexed keywords

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC); SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; TOPOLOGY; TRANSISTORS; VARACTORS;

BICMOS; PHASE NOISE; SIGE; VOLTAGE-CONTROLLED OSCILLATOR (VCO);

SEMICONDUCTING SILICON COMPOUNDS;

EID: 3843091623     PISSN: 00189200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2004.831482     Document Type: Article

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