A novel superharmonic coupling topology for quadrature oscillator design at 6 GHz

IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium, RFIC, Digest of Technical Papers

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 285-288

  Hancock, Timothy M ^a   Rebeiz, Gabriel M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Injection locked oscillators (ILO); Quadrature oscillators (QVCO); RFIC; Silicon germanium (SiGe); Superharmonic coupling

Indexed keywords

INJECTION LOCKED OSCILLATORS (ILO); QUADRATURE VOLTAGE CONTROLLED OSCILLATORS (QVCO); RFIC; SILICON GERMANIUM (SIGE); SUPERHARMONIC COUPLING;

ELECTRIC POWER UTILIZATION; PRODUCT DESIGN; RADIO TRANSMISSION; RESISTORS; SECOND HARMONIC GENERATION; SEMICONDUCTING SILICON COMPOUNDS; TRANSCEIVERS; TRANSISTORS; TUNING;

VARIABLE FREQUENCY OSCILLATORS;

EID: 4444230349     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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