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IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques
Volume 48 Number 12, December 2000

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Low-Phase-Noise Low-Power IC VCOs for 5-8-GHz Wireless Applications

Harald Jacobsson, Spartak Gevorgian, Senior Member, IEEE Mehran Mokhtari, Senior Member, IEEE Charlotta Hedenäs, Member, IEEE Bertil Hansson, Thomas Lewin, Håkan Berg, Winfried Rabe and Andreas Schüppen

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Abstract:

A set of fully integrated voltage-controlled oscillators (VCOs) in the 5-8-GHz frequency range has been designed and manufactured in Si bipolar and Si/SiGe-heterojunction-bipolar-transistor technology. A minimum phase noise of -100 dBc/Hz at 100-kHz off carrier was measured for 2-V supply voltage and 16 mW of power consumption. SiGe VCOs give considerably better phase-noise performance than Si bipolar VCOs for the technologies investigated herein, using similar topologies.

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