A 1V 220MHz-tuning-range 2.2GHz VCO using a BAW resonator

Digest of Technical Papers - IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference

Volumn 51, Issue , 2008, Pages 478-629

  Vincent, Pierre ^a   David, Jean Baptiste ^a   Burciu, Ioan ^a   Prouvée, Jerome ^a   Billard, Christophe ^a   Fuchs, Christine ^a   Parat, Guy ^a   Defoucaud, Emeric ^a   Reinhardt, Alexandre ^a  

^a CEA LETI   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VARIABLE FREQUENCY OSCILLATORS;

BAW RESONATOR; CONCEPT-BASED; FREQUENCY TUNING RANGE; MOS VARACTOR; TUNING RANGES;

TUNING;

EID: 49549085529     PISSN: 01936530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISSCC.2008.4523265     Document Type: Conference Paper

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