A hybrid fabricated 40 GHz low phase noise SiGe push-push oscillator

2003 Topical Meeting on Silicon Monolithic Integrated Circuits in RF Systems - Digest of Papers

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 72-75

  Wanner, R ^a   Olbrich, G R ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Frequency measurement; Germanium silicon alloys; Noise measurement; Oscillators; Phase measurement; Phase noise; Power generation; Silicon germanium; Substrates; Thin film circuits

Indexed keywords

ALUMINA; BICMOS TECHNOLOGY; GERMANIUM; GERMANIUM ALLOYS; HETEROJUNCTION BIPOLAR TRANSISTORS; INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; MONOLITHIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC); PHASE MEASUREMENT; POWER GENERATION; SILICON; SILICON ALLOYS; SUBSTRATES; THIN FILM CIRCUITS; THIN FILMS;

FREQUENCY MEASUREMENTS; FUNDAMENTAL FREQUENCIES; GERMANIUM SILICON ALLOY; NOISE MEASUREMENTS; PHASE NOISE PERFORMANCE; PUSH PUSH OSCILLATOR; SILICON GERMANIUM; THIN-FILM TECHNOLOGY;

PHASE NOISE;

EID: 48149100707     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SMIC.2003.1196672     Document Type: Conference Paper

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