A CMOS quadrature VCO with subharmonic and injection-locked techniques

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs

Volumn 57, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 843-847

  Lee, Shuenn Yuh ^a   Wang, Liang Hung ^a   Lin, Yu Heng ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHUNG CHENG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Frequency doubled; injection locked; oscillator; quadrature; radio frequency complementary metaloxidesemiconductor (RF CMOS); subharmonic; voltage controlled oscillator (VCO)

Indexed keywords

CIRCUIT OSCILLATIONS; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; ELECTRIC POWER UTILIZATION; IEEE STANDARDS; OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC); OSCILLISTORS; TUNING; VARIABLE FREQUENCY OSCILLATORS;

FREQUENCY DOUBLED; INJECTION LOCKED; QUADRATURE; RF-CMOS; SUBHARMONICS;

PHASE NOISE;

EID: 78649932969     PISSN: 15497747     EISSN: 15583791     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCSII.2010.2082990     Document Type: Article

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