Design and analysis of a 90 nm mm-wave oscillator using inductive-division LC tank

IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits

Volumn 44, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1950-1958

  Li, Lianming ^a   Reynaert, Patrick ^a   Steyaert, Michiel S J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

LC oscillator; Millimeter wave oscillators; Phase noise; Quality factor; VCO; Voltage controlled oscillator

Indexed keywords

LC OSCILLATOR; MILLIMETER-WAVE OSCILLATORS; QUALITY FACTOR; VCO; VOLTAGE-CONTROLLED OSCILLATOR;

CAPACITANCE; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; DIFFERENTIAL AMPLIFIERS; ELECTRIC CONVERTERS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; MILLIMETER WAVE DEVICES; MILLIMETER WAVES; Q FACTOR MEASUREMENT; TANKS (CONTAINERS); TUNING; VARACTORS; VARIABLE FREQUENCY OSCILLATORS;

PHASE NOISE;

EID: 67651211518     PISSN: 00189200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2009.2020245     Document Type: Article

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