VCO design for 60 GHz applications using differential shielded inductors in 0.13 μm CMOS

Digest of Papers - IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 135-138

  Borremans, J ^a,b   Dehan, M ^a   Scheir, K ^a,b   Kuijk, M ^b   Wambaeq, P ^a,b  

^a IMEC   (Belgium)

^b VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

60 GHz; CMOS; RF; Scaling; Slow wave; Transmission line; VCO

Indexed keywords

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; DIGITAL INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY; METALS; MILLIMETER WAVE DEVICES; NETWORKS (CIRCUITS); RADIO WAVES; TUNING;

60 GHZ; CMOS; CMOS DEVICES; COMPACT MODELING; GHZ BAND; METAL DENSITY; MILLIMETER-WAVE FREQUENCIES; PHASE-NOISE; POOR PERFORMANCE; RADIO FREQUENCY INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; RF; SCALED CMOS; SCALING; SLOW WAVES; SLOW-WAVE; TRANSMISSION LINE; TUNING RANGE; TUNING VOLTAGES; VCO;

INTEGRATED CIRCUITS;

EID: 51849105991     PISSN: 15292517     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/RFIC.2008.4561403     Document Type: Conference Paper

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