A 60-GHz CMOS VCO using capacitance-splitting and gate-drain impedance-balancing techniques

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 406-413

  Li, Lianming ^a   Reynaert, Patrick ^a   Steyaert, Michiel S J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

LC oscillator; millimeter wave oscillators; phase noise; quality factor; voltage controlled oscillator (VCO)

Indexed keywords

BALANCING TECHNIQUES; CMOS TECHNOLOGY; CMOS VCO; CROSS-COUPLED; GATE DRAIN; LC-OSCILLATORS; LOADED QUALITY FACTOR; MILLIMETER-WAVE OSCILLATORS; NOISE PERFORMANCE; OSCILLATOR NOISE; POWER CONSUMPTION; QUALITY FACTOR; TUNING RANGES; VOLTAGE CONTROLLED OSCILLATOR; VOLTAGE-CONTROLLED OSCILLATOR (VCO);

CAPACITANCE; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; MILLIMETER WAVE DEVICES; MILLIMETER WAVES; PHASE NOISE; VARIABLE FREQUENCY OSCILLATORS;

QUALITY CONTROL;

EID: 79951856381     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2010.2095425     Document Type: Article

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