• DocumentCode
    2138303
  • Title

    Monolithic VCO using a novel active inductor

  • Author

    Yongho Cho ; Songcheol Hong ; Youngse Kwon

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. Eng., Korea Adv. Inst. of Sci. & Technol., Taejeon, South Korea
  • Volume
    1
  • fYear
    1996
  • fDate
    17-21 June 1996
  • Firstpage
    137
  • Abstract
    A novel high-Q tunable active inductor utilizing a common-source cascode FET with a lossy active inductor feedback is described. Using this active inductor, we propose a monolithic VCO with a frequency tuning range from 1.66 GHz to 2.2 GHz in a compact area of 0.7/spl times/1.2 mm/sup 2/.
  • Keywords
    MMIC oscillators; Q-factor; circuit tuning; field effect MMIC; inductors; voltage-controlled oscillators; 1.66 to 2.2 GHz; common-source cascode FET; high-Q tunable active inductor; lossy active inductor feedback; monolithic VCO; Active inductors; Capacitance; FETs; Feedback loop; Frequency; Inductance; Q factor; Spirals; Tuning; Voltage-controlled oscillators;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Microwave Symposium Digest, 1996., IEEE MTT-S International
  • Conference_Location
    San Francisco, CA, USA
  • ISSN
    0149-645X
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-3246-6
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/MWSYM.1996.508480
  • Filename
    508480