• DocumentCode
    3414289
  • Title

    A circular standing wave oscillator

  • Author

    Ham, Donhee ; Andress, W.

  • Author_Institution
    Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA, USA
  • fYear
    2004
  • fDate
    15-19 Feb. 2004
  • Firstpage
    380
  • Abstract
    A circular standing wave oscillator that generates sinusoids by forming standing waves on a ring transmission line is presented. Incorporating an even-mode suppression technique, a 10 GHz prototype realized in a SiGe bipolar technology has a phase noise of -110 dBc/Hz at 1 MHz offset with a 1.95 mA current drawn from 1.5 V.
  • Keywords
    Ge-Si alloys; MMIC oscillators; bipolar MMIC; electric current; integrated circuit measurement; integrated circuit noise; phase noise; semiconductor materials; 1.5 V; 1.95 mA; 10 GHz; SiGe; circular standing wave oscillator; current; even-mode suppression technique; phase noise; prototype SiGe bipolar technology; ring transmission line; sinusoid generation; standing waves; Boundary conditions; Delay; Frequency; Inverters; Joining processes; Resistors; Ring oscillators; Signal generators; Transmission lines; Voltage;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Solid-State Circuits Conference, 2004. Digest of Technical Papers. ISSCC. 2004 IEEE International
  • ISSN
    0193-6530
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-8267-6
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ISSCC.2004.1332753
  • Filename
    1332753