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A novel varactor diodeless push‐push VCO with wide tuning range
Author(s) -
Min Sangbo,
Lee MoonQue
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
microwave and optical technology letters
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.304
H-Index - 76
eISSN - 1098-2760
pISSN - 0895-2477
DOI - 10.1002/mop.21726
Subject(s) - varicap , voltage controlled oscillator , dbc , phase noise , offset (computer science) , ku band , microwave , electrical engineering , optoelectronics , engineering , electronic engineering , materials science , physics , computer science , telecommunications , voltage , capacitance , electrode , quantum mechanics , programming language
A Ku‐band push‐push VCO for low‐cost applications is proposed. The proposed push‐push oscillator achieves a wide tuning range in the Ku‐band by the collector bias tuning instead of varactor tuning. The designed Ku‐band VCO shows a wide tuning range of 900 MHz, excellent fundamental suppression of −30 dBc, and good phase noise of −115 dBc at 1‐MHz offset. © 2006 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Microwave Opt Technol Lett 48: 1569–1572, 2006; Published online in Wiley InterScience (www.interscience.wiley.com). DOI 10.1002/mop.21726