A CMOS fractional-N PLL-based microwave chemical sensor with 1.5% permittivity accuracy

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 61, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 3402-3416

  Elhadidy, Osama ^a   Elkholy, Mohamed ^a   Helmy, Ahmed A ^a,b   Palermo, Samuel ^a   Entesari, Kamran ^a  

^a Texas AandM University   (United States)

^b QUALCOMM INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Chemical sensor; Dielectric constant; Frequency synthesizer; Mixture characterization; Oscillator; Permittivity detection

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL VARIATIONS; FRACTIONAL FREQUENCIES; FRACTIONAL-N PHASE-LOCKED LOOPS; FREQUENCY DIFFERENCES; MATERIAL CHARACTERIZATIONS; MIXTURE CHARACTERIZATIONS; REFERENCE OSCILLATORS; VOLTAGE-CONTROLLED-OSCILLATOR;

BANG BANG CONTROL SYSTEMS; BINARY MIXTURES; CHARACTERIZATION; CHEMICAL SENSORS; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; FREQUENCY DIVIDING CIRCUITS; FREQUENCY SHIFT KEYING; FREQUENCY SYNTHESIZERS; INDUSTRIAL CHEMICALS; MATERIALS; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC); OSCILLISTORS; PHASE LOCKED LOOPS;

PERMITTIVITY;

EID: 84883739873     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2013.2275908     Document Type: Article

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