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http://dx.doi.org/10.5515/KJKIEES.2013.24.11.1104

Wideband Colpitts Voltage Controlled Oscillator with Nanosecond Startup Time and 28 % Tuning Bandwidth for Bubble-Type Motion Detector  

Shin, Im-Hyu (Department of Radio Science and Engineering, Chungnam National University)
Kim, Dong-Wook (Department of Radio Science and Engineering, Chungnam National University)
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The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science / v.24, no.11, 2013 , pp. 1104-1112 More about this Journal
Abstract
This paper presents a wideband Colpitts voltage controlled oscillator(VCO) with nanosecond startup time and a center frequency of 8.35 GHz for a new bubble-type motion detector that has a bubble-layer detection zone at the specific distance from itself. The VCO circuit consists of two parts; one is a negative resistance part with a HEMT device and Colpitts feedback structure and the other is a resonator part with a varactor diode and shorted shunt microstrip line. The shorted shunt microstrip line and series capacitor are utilized to compensate for the input reactance of the packaged HEMT that changes from capacitive values to inductive values at 8.1 GHz due to parasitic package inductance. By tuning the feedback capacitors which determine negative resistance values, this paper also investigates startup time improvement with the negative resistance variation and tuning bandwidth improvement with the reactance slope variation of the negative resistance part. The VCO measurement shows the tuning bandwidth of 2.3 GHz(28 %), the output power of 4.1~7.5 dBm and the startup time of less than 2 nsec.
Keywords
Colpitts; Voltage Controlled Oscillator; Motion Detector; Wideband; Startup Time;
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