A theoretical and experimental study of injection-locked fractional frequency dividers

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 56, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 2399-2408

  Li, Jia Lin ^a   Qu, Shi Wei ^a   Xue, Quan ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Fractional frequency divider; Injection locking; Locking range; Oscillator

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS; FREQUENCY DIVIDING CIRCUITS; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS;

DC POWERS; EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES; EXPERIMENTAL VALIDATIONS; FRACTIONAL FREQUENCIES; FRACTIONAL FREQUENCY DIVIDER; HARMONIC ENHANCEMENTS; INJECTION LOCKING; LOCKING RANGE; LOCKING RANGES; NOISE PERFORMANCES; NONLINEAR OSCILLATORS; OSCILLATING FREQUENCIES; OSCILLATOR; THEORETICAL ANALYSES;

DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING;

EID: 55849145119     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2008.2004891     Document Type: Article

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