A 104- to 112.8-GHz CMOS injection-locked frequency divider

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs

Volumn 56, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 555-559

  Lee, I Ting ^a   Tsai, Kun Hung ^a   Liu, Shen Iuan ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Distributed LC; Injection locked frequency divider; Series inductor peaking

Indexed keywords

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS;

CMOS PROCESSS; DISTRIBUTED LC; HIGH FREQUENCY HF; INJECTION LOCKED FREQUENCY DIVIDER; INJECTION LOCKED FREQUENCY DIVIDER(ILFD); LOCKING RANGE; MULTIPLE INJECTIONS; SERIES INDUCTOR;

FREQUENCY DIVIDING CIRCUITS;

EID: 68249162461     PISSN: 15497747     EISSN: 15583791     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCSII.2009.2023280     Document Type: Article

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