Notice of Violation of IEEE Publication PrinciplesA multi-rate 9.953-12.5GHz 0.2μm SiGe BICMOS LC oscillator with -120dBc/Hz phase noise at 1MHz offset using a variable resistor based varactor

Notice of Violation of IEEE Publication Principles

"A multi-rate 9.953-12.5GHz 0.2 μm SiGe BICMOS LC oscillator with -120dBc Hz phase noise at 1MHz offset using a variable resistor based varactor"

by Maxim, A.

in the Proceedings of the 2005 Symposium on VLSI Circuits, 2005. Digest of Technical Papers.
16-18 June 2005 Page(s):202 - 205

After careful and considered review, it has been determined that the above paper is in violation of IEEE\´s Publication Principles.

Specifically, the paper contains information that Adrian Maxim admits had been falsified. In response to an inquiry on this misconduct, Mr. Maxim acknowledged that the following people who have been listed as co-authors on several of his papers are fabricated names and that he is the only author:

C. Turinici, D. Smith, S. Dupue, M. Gheorge, R. Johns, D. Antrik

Additionally, in papers by Mr. Maxim that have co-authors other than those listed above, it was discovered in some cases that he had not consulted with them while writing the papers, and submitted papers without their knowledge.

Although Mr. Maxim maintains that not all of the data is falsified, IEEE nevertheless cannot assure the integrity of papers posted by him because of his repeated false statements.

Due to the nature of this violation, reasonable effort should be made to remove all past references to the above paper, and to refrain from any future references.A multi-rate 9.953-12.5GHz low phase noise LC oscillator was realized in a 90GHz f/sub T/ 0.2μm SiGe process. Tt achieves a 36% tuning range by combining a 35% calibration range having a sub-0.1% residual error and a 1% varactor tuning. The oscillator gain is maintained less than 130MHz/V while having <10% variation over the entire tuning range. The varactor is realized with multiple parallel connected cells consisting of constant capacitors and voltage controlled resistors. To minimize the supply injected - purious tones the oscillator was biased from a high PSRR, low noise regulator. The VCO specifications include: -120dBc/Hz phase noise at 1MHz offset, 5 KHz 1/f/sup 3/ corner frequency, and <6mA current from a 3.3V supply.