Injection locking in concurrent dual-frequency oscillators

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 56, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1834-1845

  Goel, Ankush ^a,b   Hashemi, Hossein ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b University of Southern California   (United States)

Author keywords

Injection locked oscillators; Nonlinear systems; Oscillators

Indexed keywords

BICMOS TECHNOLOGY; DIFFERENCE EQUATIONS; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; DIFFERENTIATION (CALCULUS); ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS; ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY; INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; OPTICAL DESIGN; SEMICONDUCTING SILICON; SIGNAL GENERATORS;

ACTIVE CORE; BEAM FORMING; COUPLED-OSCILLATOR ARRAYS; DETUNING; DUAL-FREQUENCY; DUAL-FREQUENCY OSCILLATORS; INJECTION-LOCKED OSCILLATORS; INJECTION-LOCKING; LINEAR ARRAYS; LINEAR PHASE; MEASUREMENT RESULTS; NONLINEAR SYSTEMS; ONE FREQUENCY; OSCILLATORS; QUADRATURE SIGNAL GENERATION; SIGE BICMOS; SINGLE-FREQUENCY; THEORETICAL ANALYSIS;

OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC);

EID: 49249112002     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2008.926547     Document Type: Article

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