A 600 μW BAW-Tuned Quadrature VCO Using Source Degenerated Coupling

IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 300-305

  Rai, Shailesh S ^a   Otis, Brian P ^a  

^a University of Washington   (United States)

Author keywords

Anti phase injection; BAW; I Q; phase noise; QVCO

Indexed keywords

EID: 85008023533     PISSN: 00189200     EISSN: 1558173X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2007.914717     Document Type: Article

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