60 GHz VCO with wideband tuning range fabricated on VLSI SOI CMOS technology

IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium Digest

Volumn 3, Issue , 2004, Pages 1329-1332

  Ellinger, Frank ^a   Morf, Thomas ^b   Von Büren, George ^a   Kromer, Christian ^a   Sialm, Gion ^a   Rodoni, Lucio ^a   Schmatz, Martin ^b   Jäckel, Heinz ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b IBM RESEARCH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

CMOS; Millimeter wave frequencies; MMIC; SOI; VCO

Indexed keywords

MONOLITHIC MICROWAVE INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; OPTIMIZATION; OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC); SILICON ON INSULATOR TECHNOLOGY; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; TUNING; VARACTORS; VLSI CIRCUITS;

LOW NOISE AMPLIFIERS; OSCILLATOR CORES; OUTPUT BUFFERS; SUPPLY CURRENT;

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS;

EID: 4544384340     PISSN: 0149645X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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