Study on novel voltage controlled oscillator

Author

Jing, Wu ; Shurong, Li ; Jichang, Guo ; Kejun, Xia ; Weilian, Guo

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electron. Information Eng., Tianjin Univ., China

Volume

1

fYear

2003

fDate

4-7 May 2003

Firstpage

49

Abstract

A novel voltage controlled oscillator (VCO) without inductances has been fabricated for the first time based on dual base transistor (DUBAT), which is normally considered as a negative resistance device. The physical model gained through the analysis of the two dimensional transportation of its internal charge carriers of this oscillator is described in detail and its equivalent circuit is introduced. The results simulated by SPICE are consistent with those of experiments. An excellent linearity of frequency versus control voltage is realized with a custom voltage range of control electrode. The simplicity of DUBAT structure and the compatibility of bipolar integrating process make this novel VCO a promising candidate for combination of VCO with functional circuits on a single silicon chip.

Keywords

SPICE; bipolar integrated circuits; circuit feedback; equivalent circuits; negative resistance; transistors; voltage-controlled oscillators; NPN transistor; PN junction; bipolar integrating process; body resistance; control electrode; coupling region; dual base transistor; equivalent circuit; frequency linearity; internal charge carriers; negative resistance device; positive feedback; silicon chip; voltage controlled oscillator; Charge carriers; Circuit simulation; Electrodes; Equivalent circuits; Frequency; Linearity; Road transportation; SPICE; Voltage control; Voltage-controlled oscillators;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2003. IEEE CCECE 2003. Canadian Conference on

ISSN

0840-7789

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7781-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CCECE.2003.1226341

Filename

1226341