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A Design of 8.5 GHz META-VCO based-on Meta-material using 65 nm CMOS Process

  • Lee, Jongsuk (School of Electronic Engineering, Soongsil University) ;
  • Moon, Yong (School of Electronic Engineering, Soongsil University)
  • Received : 2016.03.15
  • Accepted : 2016.06.08
  • Published : 2016.10.30
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Abstract

A low phase noise META-VCO based-on meta-structure was designed using 65 nm CMOS process. We used a meta-structure to get good phase noise characteristics. The measured phase noises are -67.8 dBc/Hz, -96.37 dBc/Hz, and -107.37 dBc/Hz at 100 kHz, 1 MHz, and 10 MHz offset respectively. The META-VCO operates 8.45~8.77 GHz according to VCTRL, and the output power is -19.12 dBm. The power consumption is 28 mW with 1.2-V supply voltage. The calculated FOM is -140.76 dBc/Hz.

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