• The Journal of The Korea Institute of Intelligent Transport Systems
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• v.11 no.5
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• pp.89-96
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• 2012

In this paper, a low phase noise oscillator is designed using an interdigital hairpin resonator for UTIS (Urban Traffic Information Systems). The interdigital hairpin resonator has several characteristics compared with a conventional hairpin resonator, which are 70% size reduction and improvement of harmonic characteristics. In addition, Q (Quality factor) of the interdigital hairpin resonator is about 132, which is suitable for the design of a low phase noise oscillator. The oscillator suggested in this paper shows the output power of 12 dBm and the phase noise characteristic of -100.8 dBc/Hz at 100 kHz offset frequency from the center frequency of 5.75 GHz. The phase noise is improved by about 12 dB compared with a conventional oscillator using an interdigital hairpin resonator.