• DocumentCode
    2173191
  • Title

    A Ku-band InP-based RTD MMIC VCO with very low DC power consumption

  • Author

    Choi, Sunkyu ; Jeong, Yongsik ; Yang, Kyounghoon

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., Korea Adv. Inst. of Sci. & Technol., Daejeon, South Korea
  • fYear
    2005
  • fDate
    8-12 May 2005
  • Firstpage
    263
  • Lastpage
    266
  • Abstract
    A Ku-band RTD-based VCO has been demonstrated using an InP-based RTD/HBT MMIC technology for the first time. The VCO showed the extremely low DC power consumption of 0.71 mW with good phase noise characteristics.
  • Keywords
    III-V semiconductors; MMIC; heterojunction bipolar transistors; indium compounds; phase noise; resonant tunnelling diodes; voltage-controlled oscillators; DC power consumption; InP; InP-based RTD-HBT MMIC technology; Ku-band RTD-based VCO; phase noise characteristics; Capacitance; Circuits; Energy consumption; Frequency; Heterojunction bipolar transistors; MMICs; Phase noise; Tuning; Voltage; Voltage-controlled oscillators;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Indium Phosphide and Related Materials, 2005. International Conference on
  • ISSN
    1092-8669
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-8891-7
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ICIPRM.2005.1517474
  • Filename
    1517474