Wide BST-based tuning of voltage controlled oscillator

Author

Al-Ahmad, M. ; Loyez, C. ; Rolland, N. ; Rolland, P.A.

Author_Institution

UMR, Villeneuve-d´´Ascq

fYear

2006

fDate

12-15 Dec. 2006

Firstpage

468

Lastpage

471

Abstract

Tunable voltage controlled oscillators (VCO´s) are expected to be useful in enhancing the multi-band pro- grammability of wired/wireless communication terminals. A voltage tunable oscillator employing barium strontium titanate (BST) tunable capacitor is presented. The utilized BST tunable capacitor shows a tuning of 20% at 35 GHz. The oscillation frequency of the voltage controlled oscillator (VCO) is tuned from 34.40 GHz to 36 GHz, tuning of 5% (i.e. absolute tuning of 1.6 GHz) with the application of 30 volts tuning voltage.

Keywords

barium compounds; strontium compounds; titanium compounds; tuning; voltage-controlled oscillators; BST-based tuning; VCO; barium strontium titanate tunable capacitor; communication terminals; voltage controlled oscillator; voltage tunable oscillator; Binary search trees; Capacitors; Circuit optimization; Distributed parameter circuits; Feedback; Fingers; Frequency; Tunable circuits and devices; Tuning; Voltage-controlled oscillators; Barium strontium titanate; negative resistance circuits; oscillator; tunable devices and circuits; tuning; voltage controlled oscillator;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave Conference, 2006. APMC 2006. Asia-Pacific

Conference_Location

Yokohama

Print_ISBN

978-4-902339-08-6

Electronic_ISBN

978-4-902339-11-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/APMC.2006.4429465

Filename

4429465