2009, Hu, K., Herzel, F., Scheytt, J.C.

In this paper a low-power low-phase-noise voltage-controlled-oscillator (VCO) has been designed and, fabricated in 0.25 μm SiGe BiCMOS process. The resonator of the VCO is implemented with on-chip MIM capacitors and a single aluminum bondwire. A tail current filter is realized to suppress flicker noise up-conversion. The measured phase noise is −126.6 dBc/Hz at 1 MHz offset from a 7.8 GHz carrier. The figure of merit (FOM) of the VCO is −192.5 dBc/Hz and the VCO core consumes 4 mA from a 3.3 V power supply. To the best of our knowledge, this is the best FOM and the lowest phase noise for bondwire VCOs in the X-band. This VCO will be used for satellite communications.

2009, IHP

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2008, Grass, Eckhard

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2009, Kraemer, Rolf

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2006, Langendörfer, Peter, deMeer, Jan, Maye, Oliver, Piotrowski, Krzysztof, Schwander, Peter, Spichal, Gregor, Klein, Cornel, Fischer, Elisabeth-Anna, Lehmann, Bettina, Ostrowski, Edgar, Grothe, Andreas, Burkhardt, Frank, David, Klaus, Deist, Christian, Wüst, Björn, Droegehorn, Olaf, Colutand, Olivier, Hofmann, Hilko

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2008, Kittler, Martin, Arguirov, Tzanimir, Jia, Guobin

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2008, Birkholz, Mario

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2009, Scheytt, J. Christoph

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