Investigation and reduction of frequency pulling in SiGe mm-wave VCOs at limited power consumption

Proceedings of the IEEE Bipolar/BiCMOS Circuits and Technology Meeting

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 69-72

  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

CENTER FREQUENCY; COMMON-BASE; CROSS-COUPLED; INPUT IMPEDANCE; LOAD VARIATIONS; LOW-POWER DISSIPATION; MM-WAVE; OFFSET FREQUENCIES; OSCILLATION FREQUENCY; OUTPUT POWER; POWER CONSUMPTION; REAL PART; SIGE BIPOLAR TECHNOLOGY; TUNING RANGES; VOLTAGE GAIN; WIDE-BAND;

MILLIMETER WAVES; SILICON ALLOYS;

ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE;

EID: 78651404980     PISSN: 10889299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/BIPOL.2010.5667954     Document Type: Conference Paper

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