• JSTS:Journal of Semiconductor Technology and Science
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• 제13권3호
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• pp.207-212
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• 2013

A new CMOS voltage-bias differential LC voltage-controlled oscillator (LC-VCO) with active source degeneration is proposed. The proposed degeneration technique preserves the quality factor of the LC-tank which leads to improvement in phase noise of VCO oscillators. The proposed VCO shows the high figure of merit (FOM) with large tuning range, low power, and small chip size compared to those of conventional voltage-bias differential LC-VCO. The proposed VCO implemented in 0.18-${\mu}m$ CMOS shows the phase noise of -118 dBc/Hz at 1 MHz offset oscillating at 5.03 GHz, tuning range of 12%, occupies 0.15 $mm^2$ of chip area while dissipating 1.44 mW from 0.8 V supply.

• Journal of electromagnetic engineering and science
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• 제7권2호
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• pp.64-68
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• 2007

An InGaP/GaAs HBT based differential Colpitts voltage control oscillator(VCO) is presented in this paper. In the VCO core, two switching transistors are introduced to steer the core bias current to save power. An LC tank with an inductor quality factor(Q) of 11.4 is used to generate oscillation frequency. It has a superior phase noise characteristics of -130.12 dBc/Hz and -105.3 at 1 MHz and 100 kHz frequency offsets respectively from the carrier frequency(1.566 GHz) when supplied with a control voltage of 0 volt. It dissipates output power of -5.3 dBm. Two pairs of on-chip base collector (BC) diodes are used in the tank circuit to increase the VCO tuning range(168 MHz). This VCO occupies the area of $1.070{\times}0.90mm^2$ including buffer and pads.

• Journal of electromagnetic engineering and science
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• 제16권3호
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• pp.191-193
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• 2016

This paper proposes a voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO) that has broadband turning and low-level of phase noise characteristics. Due to the micro-strip line resonant circuit with a low Q value, which is applied to the broadband tuning range, the depreciated phase noise performance is compensated by restraining the harmonics of the oscillating frequency. The VCO was designed according to the proposed structure as well as the conventional structure, and the superiority of the proposed structure was verified through its simulation, fabrication, and measurement.

• Journal of electromagnetic engineering and science
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• 제11권4호
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• pp.235-238
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• 2011

In this paper, a novel low phase noise voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO) using metamaterial structure and rat race coupler is presented for reducing the phase noise without the reduction of the frequency tuning range. The metamaterial structure has been realized by microstrip square open loop double split ring resonator (SRR). The rat race coupler shows slightly higher transmission compared to a Wilkinson combiner and is, therefore, used instead to improve the performances of VCO. By providing these unique modifications, the proposed push-push VCO has a phase noise of -126.30~-124.83 dBc/Hz at 100 kHz in the tuning range of 5.672~5.800 GHz.

• JSTS:Journal of Semiconductor Technology and Science
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• 제17권1호
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• pp.42-47
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• 2017

This paper proposes a new series-coupled voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO). The proposed VCO consists of four current-reuse Armstrong VCOs (CRA-VCOs) coupled by four transformers. The series-coupling, current-reuse, and Armstrong topologies improve the phase noise performance by increasing the negative-Gm of the VCO core with half the current consumption of a conventional differential VCO. The proposed VCO consumes 6.54 mW at 9.78 GHz from a 1-V supply voltage. The measured phase noise is -115.1 dBc/Hz at an offset frequency of 1 MHz, and the FoM is -186.5 dBc/Hz. The frequency tuning range is from 9.38-10.52 GHz. The core area is $0.49mm^2$ in a $0.13-{\mu}m$ CMOS process.

• Journal of electromagnetic engineering and science
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• 제4권4호
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• pp.156-161
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• 2004

The MMIC cascode VCO is designed, fabricated, and measured for Ku-band Low Noise Blcok(LNB) system using InGaP/GaAs HBT technology. The phase noise of -116.4 dBc/Hz at 1 MHz offset with output power of 1.3 dBm is obtained at 11.526 GHz by applying 3 V and 11 mA, which is comparatively better characteristics than compared with the different configuration VCOs fabricated with other technologies. The simulated results of oscillation frequency and second harmonic suppression agree with the measured results. The phase noise is improved due to the use of the smallest value of inductor in frequency determining network and the InGaP ledge function of the technology. The chip size of $830\time781\;{\mu}m^2$ is also achieved.

• 대한전자공학회논문지TC
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• 제45권7호
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• pp.77-80
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• 2008

본 논문에서는 위상잡음 특성을 개선하기 위하여 spiral 공진기를 이용한 전압제어 발진기를 제안하였다. Spiral 공진기는 작은 면적, 저지대역에서 날카로운 스커트 특성과 낮은 삽입손실, 큰 결합 계수 값을 가지고 있고, 이로 인해 높은 Q 값을 가지며 전압 제어 발진기의 위상 잡음을 감소시킨다. 공진기의 Q 값이 높아짐에 따라 좁아지는 주파수 조절 범위를 높이기 위하여 버랙터 다이오드를 조절 가능한 부성저항에 연결하였다. 전압 제어발진기는 $5.686{\sim}5.841GHz$에서 발진이 일어났고, 출력은 11.83 dBm, 하모닉 특성은 -29.83 dBc, 위상 잡음 특성은 100 KHz offset에서 $-115.16{\sim}115.17dBc/Hz$이다.

• 한국전자파학회논문지
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• 제15권2호
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• pp.145-151
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• 2004

본 논문은 5 GHz 대역의 저위상잡음 특성을 갖는 모두 집적화된 LC Tank 전압제어 발진기를 설계 제작하였다. 제작된 전압제어발진기는 PN 다이오드를 사용하여 튜닝되며, 제어 전압 0∼3 V 하에서 튜닝 범위는 5.01∼5.30 GHz의 290 MHz 튜닝 범위를 가진다. 우수한 위상 잡음 특성을 얻기 위해 LC 필터링 기법을 이용하여 전류 전원 트랜지스터의 열잡음의 상향 변환을 막았다. 측정 결과 위상잡음은 -87.8 dBc/Hz＠100 kHz offset, -111.4 dBc/Hz＠1 MHz offset의 우수한 특성을 보였다. 또한 LC 필터로 인해 약 5 dB의 위상잡음 특성이 개선됨을 알 수 있었으며, 이는 HBT 공정을 이용한 최초의 실험적 결과이다. 제작된 전압제어 발진기의 FOM은 -172.1 dBc/Hz이며, 이는 5 GHz 대역의 InGaP HBT VCO 중 최고의 성능이다. 또한 본 논문에서 제안한 발진기는 기존의 InGaP HBT를 이용한 VCO에 비해 더 낮은 DC 전력을 소모하며, 더 높고 평탄한 출력 전력 특성을 보였다.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2003년도 하계종합학술대회 논문집 I
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• pp.617-620
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• 2003

In this paper, a monolithic VCO has been designed for Wireless Local Area Network(WLAN) applications. The differential form VCO is constructed using positive feedback with capacitor and phase shift for low phase noise performance. The VCO shows the phase noise of -92.725 dBc/Hz at an offset frequency of 10KHz and the tunning range of 5.822~6.154GHz.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2004년도 하계종합학술대회 논문집(2)
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• pp.465-468
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• 2004

In this paper, we describe the design and implementation of the new current-current negative feedback (CCNF) voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO), which suppresses 1/f induced low-frequency noise. By means of the CCNF, the high-frequency noise as well as the low-frequency noise is prevented from being converted into phase noise. The proposed CCNF VCO shows 11-dB reduction in phase noise at 10 kHz offset, compared with the conventional differential VCO. The phase noise of the proposed VCO is -87 dBc/Hz at 10 kHz offset frequency from 5.5-GHz carrier. The proposed VCO consumes 14.0 mA at 2.0 V supply voltage, and shows single-ended output power of -12.0 dBm.