Fully Integrated Millimeter-Wave VCO with 32% Tuning Range

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作者
Liu, Gang [1 ]
Chartier, Sebastien [1 ]
Trasser, Andreas [1 ]
Schumacher, Hermann [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ Ulm, Inst Electron Devices & Circuits, D-89081 Ulm, Germany
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Millimeter-Wave VCO; SiGe HBT; wide tuning range;
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TM [电工技术]; TN [电子技术、通信技术];
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0808 ; 0809 ;
摘要
In this paper, the authors present a fully integrated VCO with 32% tuning range centered at 38.9 GHz. The VCO was designed using a commercially available, inexpensive 0.8 mu m Si/SiGe HBT technology with f(T) and f(max) of 80 and 90 GHz, respectively. It consumes 195 mW DC power and provides an output power of more than 5 dBm. A phase noise of -93 dBc/Hz at 1 MHz offset was measured for the free running VCO.
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