Waveguide tuner stabilized ultra low phase noise 60 GHz SiGe:C oscillator MMIC

Author

Mills, J.B. ; Ocket, I. ; John, A. ; Nauwelaers, B.

Author_Institution

Philips Res., Eindhoven, Netherlands

fYear

2011

fDate

17-19 Jan. 2011

Firstpage

77

Lastpage

80

Abstract

In this paper we report an on-wafer waveguide tuner set-up and demonstrate its use in the design of an off-chip cavity based oscillator MMIC for 60 GHz. Measured oscillators discussed in the paper operated at frequencies of 59.3579 GHz, 59.3581 and 60.4495GHz with phase noise levels at 1MHz carrier offset of -122.68 dBcHz^-1, -123.11 dBcHz^-1 and -120.75 dBcHz^-1 respectively. To the authors´ knowledge, these are the lowest values reported to date in this frequency range. The simulation approach used is based on a small-signal description and agrees very well with measured oscillation frequencies.

Keywords

MMIC; oscillators; phase noise; SiGe:C; frequency 59.3579 GHz; frequency 59.3581 GHz; frequency 60.4495 GHz; frequency range; on wafer waveguide; oscillation frequencies; oscillator MMIC; phase noise levels; small-signal description; stabilized ultra low phase noise; waveguide tuner; Cavity resonators; Microwave FET integrated circuits; Microwave integrated circuits; Microwave theory and techniques; Phase noise; Tuners; BiCMOS; V-Band; impedance tuner; oscillator; phase noise; waveguide;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Silicon Monolithic Integrated Circuits in RF Systems (SiRF), 2011 IEEE 11th Topical Meeting on

Conference_Location

Phoenix, AZ

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-8060-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SIRF.2011.5719326

Filename

5719326