Title :
A Ku-band InP-based RTD MMIC VCO with very low DC power consumption
Author :
Choi, Sunkyu ; Jeong, Yongsik ; Yang, Kyounghoon
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., Korea Adv. Inst. of Sci. & Technol., Daejeon, South Korea
Abstract :
A Ku-band RTD-based VCO has been demonstrated using an InP-based RTD/HBT MMIC technology for the first time. The VCO showed the extremely low DC power consumption of 0.71 mW with good phase noise characteristics.
Keywords :
III-V semiconductors; MMIC; heterojunction bipolar transistors; indium compounds; phase noise; resonant tunnelling diodes; voltage-controlled oscillators; DC power consumption; InP; InP-based RTD-HBT MMIC technology; Ku-band RTD-based VCO; phase noise characteristics; Capacitance; Circuits; Energy consumption; Frequency; Heterojunction bipolar transistors; MMICs; Phase noise; Tuning; Voltage; Voltage-controlled oscillators;
Conference_Titel :
Indium Phosphide and Related Materials, 2005. International Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-8891-7
DOI :
10.1109/ICIPRM.2005.1517474
