Application of subharmonic injection locking of LC oscillators to LO-based phase-shifting phased-array architectures

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 58, Issue 12 PART 1, 2010, Pages 3475-3484

  Soliman, Yasser ^a   Mason, Ralph ^a  

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Integrated phased arrays; local oscillator (LO) path phase shifting; subharmonic injection locking

Indexed keywords

BEFORE AND AFTER; CALIBRATION TECHNIQUES; CLOSE PROXIMITY; CMOS TECHNOLOGY; HIGH-SPEED; INJECTION LOCKED OSCILLATORS; INJECTION-LOCKING SCHEME; ISM BANDS; LC-OSCILLATORS; LOCAL OSCILLATORS; MAXIMUM PHASE; PHASE-SHIFTING; PHASED ARRAYS; REGENERATIVE COMPARATOR; SUB-HARMONIC INJECTION LOCKING; SUBHARMONICS;

ARCHITECTURE; CALIBRATION; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; PHASE SHIFT;

OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC);

EID: 78650268710     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2010.2081570     Document Type: Conference Paper

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