A harmonic injection-locked frequency divider in 0.18-μm SiGe BiCMOS

IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters

Volumn 16, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 561-563

  Yeh, John ^b   Lee, Chwan Ying ^b   Chern, John ^b  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b Taiwan Semiconductor ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Divider by four; high order frequency division; injection locked frequency divider; locking range; positive feedback; subharmonic mixer

Indexed keywords

EID: 85008049433     PISSN: 15311309     EISSN: 15581764     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LMWC.2006.882383     Document Type: Article

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