A 45-GHz rotary-wave voltage-controlled oscillator

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 383-392

  Nouri, Neda ^a   Buckwalter, James F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Rotary wave oscillator (RWO); standing wave oscillator (SWO); voltage controlled oscillators (VCOs)

Indexed keywords

FREQUENCY OF OPERATION; MULTIPHASE VOLTAGE; NMOS DEVICES; POWER CONSUMPTION; SIGE BICMOS; STANDING-WAVE OSCILLATOR (SWO); SUPPLY VOLTAGES; TRAVELING WAVE; TUNING RANGES; VOLTAGE-CONTROLLED OSCILLATORS (VCOS); WAVE OSCILLATORS; WAVE VOLTAGES;

PHASE NOISE; SEMICONDUCTING SILICON;

VARIABLE FREQUENCY OSCILLATORS;

EID: 79951850988     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2010.2097712     Document Type: Article

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