Low phase-noise integrated voltage controlled oscillator design using LTCC technology

Author

Sin-Hang Cheng ; Cheng, Sin-Hang ; Wu, Ke-Li

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. Eng., Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong, China

Volume

13

Issue

8

fYear

2003

Firstpage

329

Lastpage

331

Abstract

This paper describes the design and implementation of a highly integrated voltage controlled oscillator (VCO) module based upon Low-Temperature Co-fired Ceramic (LTCC) packaging technology. The circuit is realized by embedding the strip-line resonator and lumped passives inside a multilayer LTCC substrate. Measurement results of a silicon bipolar VCO circuit operating at 2.4 GHz is shown. The constructed module is compact in size and has good phase noise performance.

Keywords

UHF integrated circuits; UHF oscillators; ceramic packaging; phase noise; strip line resonators; voltage-controlled oscillators; 2.4 GHz; LTCC packaging; bipolar VCO circuit; embedded capacitors; embedded inductors; integrated voltage controlled oscillator; low phase noise; lumped passives; module design; multilayer substrate; multiport electromagnetic simulation; strip-line resonator; Capacitors; Ceramics; Circuit simulation; Filters; Frequency; Integrated circuit technology; Nonhomogeneous media; Phase noise; Silicon; Voltage-controlled oscillators;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Microwave and Wireless Components Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1531-1309

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LMWC.2003.815686

Filename

1225673