A self-sustained CMOS microwave chemical sensor using a frequency synthesizer

IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits

Volumn 47, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 2467-2483

  Helmy, Ahmed A ^a   Jeon, Hyung Joon ^a   Lo, Yung Chung ^b   Larsson, Andreas J ^a   Kulkarni, Raghavendra ^c   Kim, Jusung ^b   Silva Martinez, Jose ^a   Entesari, Kamran ^a  

^a Texas AandM University   (United States)

^b QUALCOMM INC   (United States)

^c BROADCOM CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Dielectric constant; frequency synthesizer; microwave sensor; oscillator

Indexed keywords

ANALOG TO DIGITAL CONVERTERS; DETECTION AND ESTIMATION; FREQUENCY RANGES; FREQUENCY SHIFT; ON CHIPS; ON-CHIP SENSORS; ORGANIC LIQUID; OSCILLATION FREQUENCY; SAMPLE VOLUME; THEORETICAL VALUES;

BINARY MIXTURES; FREQUENCY SHIFT KEYING; FREQUENCY SYNTHESIZERS; MICROWAVE SENSORS; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC); OSCILLISTORS; PERMITTIVITY; SENSORS; VARIABLE FREQUENCY OSCILLATORS;

DIELECTRIC LIQUIDS;

EID: 84867399877     PISSN: 00189200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2012.2203458     Document Type: Article

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