Title :
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
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;
Journal_Title :
Microwave and Wireless Components Letters, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/LMWC.2003.815686
