Utilization of MEMS tunable inductors in the design of RF voltage-controlled oscillators

Proceedings of the 15th IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits and Systems, ICECS 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 718-721

  Casha, Owen ^a   Grech, Ivan ^a   Micallef, Joseph ^a   Gatt, Edward ^a   Morche, Dominique ^b   Viala, Bernard ^b   Michel, Jean Philippe ^b   Vincent, Pierre ^b   De Foucauld, Emeric ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MALTA   (Malta)

^b CEA GRENOBLE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DESIGN; MEMS; MICROELECTROMECHANICAL DEVICES; OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC); VARIABLE FREQUENCY OSCILLATORS;

CAPACITIVE TUNING; DESIGN AND SIMULATIONS; POWER CONSUMPTIONS; RF VOLTAGES; SIMULATION RESULTS; TUNABLE INDUCTORS; WIDE BANDS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

EID: 57849103192     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICECS.2008.4674954     Document Type: Conference Paper

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