An 80 GHz SiGe bipolar VCO with wide tuning range using two simultaneously tuned varactor pairs

2008 IEEE CSIC Symposium: GaAs ICs Celebrate 30 Years in Monterey, Technical Digest 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Pohl, Nils ^a   Rein, Hans Martin ^a   Musch, Thomas ^a   Aufinger, Klaus ^b   Hausner, Josef ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^b INFINEON TECHNOLOGIES AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GALLIUM ALLOYS; SEMICONDUCTING GALLIUM; SEMICONDUCTING GERMANIUM COMPOUNDS; SILICON ALLOYS; VARACTORS; VARIABLE FREQUENCY OSCILLATORS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

A CENTERS; CASCODE BUFFERS; LOW POWERS; MILLIMETER-WAVE; OFFSET FREQUENCIES; OUTPUT LOADS; OUTPUT POWERS; POWER CONSUMPTIONS; SIGE BIPOLAR; TUNING RANGES; WIDE TUNING RANGES;

TUNING;

EID: 57849126855     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CSICS.2008.46     Document Type: Conference Paper

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