A 23-to-29 GHz transconductor-tuned VCO MMIC in 0.13 μm CMOS

IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits

Volumn 42, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 2878-2886

  Kwok, Kachun ^a   Long, John R ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Millimeter wave; Monolithic microwave integrated circuit (MMIC); Transconductor tuned; Varactor tuned; Voltage controlled oscillator (VCO); Wide tuning range; Wideband VCO

Indexed keywords

CMOS TECHNOLOGY; COMMON MODE RANGE; FREQUENCY OFFSETS; OUTPUT BUFFER; SINGLE-ENDED; TRANSCONDUCTORS; TUNING VOLTAGES; VOLTAGE CONTROLLED OSCILLATOR; WIDE TUNING RANGE; WIDEBAND VCO;

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; ELECTRIC CONVERTERS; FREQUENCY ALLOCATION; INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; MICROWAVE INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; MICROWAVE OSCILLATORS; MILLIMETER WAVE DEVICES; MILLIMETER WAVES; TRANSCONDUCTANCE; TUNING; VARACTORS; VARIABLE FREQUENCY OSCILLATORS;

MONOLITHIC MICROWAVE INTEGRATED CIRCUITS;

EID: 43349103063     PISSN: 00189200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2007.908740     Document Type: Conference Paper

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