Voltage-controlled oscillators up to 98 GHz in SiGe bipolar technology

IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits

Volumn 39, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 1773-1777

  Perndl, Werner ^a,b   Knapp, Herbert ^a   Aufinger, Klaus ^a   Meister, Thomas F ^c   Simbürger, Werner ^a   Scholtz, Arpad L ^b  

^a INFINEON TECHNOLOGIES AG   (Germany)

^b VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Phase noise; Phase noise measurement; SiGe; Voltage controlled oscillator (VCO); Waveguide

Indexed keywords

CAPACITORS; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; HYSTERESIS; INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; RESONATORS; SEMICONDUCTING INDIUM GALLIUM ARSENIDE; SEMICONDUCTING SILICON COMPOUNDS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TRANSISTORS; WAVE TRANSMISSION;

BIPOLAR TECHNOLOGY; CIRCUIT DESIGN; PHASE NOISE; PHASE NOISE MEASUREMENT;

VARIABLE FREQUENCY OSCILLATORS;

EID: 5544291903     PISSN: 00189200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2004.833757     Document Type: Conference Paper

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