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A Triple-Push Voltage Controlled Oscillator in 0.13-µm RFCMOS Technology Operating Near 177GHz
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This paper presents a G-band triple-push voltage controlled oscillator (VCO) operating around 177GHz. The VCO, implemented in a commercial 0.13-µm RFCMOS technology, adopts a triple-push topology that is composed of 3 symmetrically coupled identical Colpitts sub-oscillators. Oscillation frequency can be tuned from 175.9GHz to 178.4GHz with varactor tuning voltage swept from 0 to 1.2V. The calibrated output power ranged from -19.7dBm to -16.6dBm depending on the oscillation frequency. The measured phase noise of the VCO is -80.2dBc/Hz at 1MHz offset. The results clearly demonstrate the possibility of applying triple-push topology for VCOs operating beyond 100GHz, enabling various high frequency applications that require tunable frequency sources.
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- IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Electronics Vol.E97-C No.5 pp.444-447
- Publication Date
- 2014/05/01
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- Online ISSN
- 1745-1353
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- 10.1587/transele.E97.C.444
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- BRIEF PAPER
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Namhyung KIM
Korea University
Kyungmin KIM
Avago Technology
Jae-Sung RIEH
Korea University
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Namhyung KIM, Kyungmin KIM, Jae-Sung RIEH, "A Triple-Push Voltage Controlled Oscillator in 0.13-µm RFCMOS Technology Operating Near 177GHz" in IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Electronics,
vol. E97-C, no. 5, pp. 444-447, May 2014, doi: 10.1587/transele.E97.C.444.
Abstract: This paper presents a G-band triple-push voltage controlled oscillator (VCO) operating around 177GHz. The VCO, implemented in a commercial 0.13-µm RFCMOS technology, adopts a triple-push topology that is composed of 3 symmetrically coupled identical Colpitts sub-oscillators. Oscillation frequency can be tuned from 175.9GHz to 178.4GHz with varactor tuning voltage swept from 0 to 1.2V. The calibrated output power ranged from -19.7dBm to -16.6dBm depending on the oscillation frequency. The measured phase noise of the VCO is -80.2dBc/Hz at 1MHz offset. The results clearly demonstrate the possibility of applying triple-push topology for VCOs operating beyond 100GHz, enabling various high frequency applications that require tunable frequency sources.
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