A distributed "hybrid" wave oscillator array for millimeter-wave phased-arrays

Proceedings of the Custom Integrated Circuits Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Moroni, A ^a   Genesi, R ^a,b   Manstretta, D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^b Maxim Integrated Products ^*  (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARRAY ELEMENTS; DISTRIBUTED OSCILLATORS; LO GENERATION; PHASED-ARRAYS; QUADRATURE OUTPUTS; ROTARY TRAVELING-WAVE OSCILLATORS; TUNING RANGES; WAVE OSCILLATORS;

INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; MILLIMETER WAVES;

PHASE NOISE;

EID: 84869417066     PISSN: 08865930     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CICC.2012.6330596     Document Type: Conference Paper

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