A Low-phase noise LC-QVCO in CMOS technology

IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters

Volumn 14, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 540-542

  Choi, Hyoung Chul ^a   Shin, So Bong ^a   Lee, Sang Gug ^a  

^a Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

1 f noise up conversion; Complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS); Phase noise; Quadrature voltage controlled oscillator (QVCO); RF; Source injection parallel coupled quadrature VCO (SIPC QVCO)

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFIERS (ELECTRONIC); ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SIGNAL GENERATORS; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; VARIABLE FREQUENCY OSCILLATORS;

COUPLING TRANSISTORS; DRAIN NODES; PHASE NOISE DEGRADATION;

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS;

EID: 9144252179     PISSN: 15311309     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LMWC.2004.834553     Document Type: Article

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