| publication name | Triple bands Class-C voltage-controlled power oscillator based on high-quality factor asymmetry inductor |
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| Authors | Marwa Mansour, Islam Mansour |
| year | 2021 |
| keywords | Class-C CMOS LC-Tank Figure of merit Phase noise Q-factor Self-resonance frequency Tuning range Voltage-controlled oscillator |
| journal | Microelectronics Journal |
| volume | 116 |
| issue | 12 |
| pages | 105251 |
| publisher | Elsevier |
| Local/International | International |
| Paper Link | https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0026269221002408 |
| Full paper | download |
| Supplementary materials | Not Available |
Abstract
This work presents a complementary P–N class-C voltage-controlled power oscillator based on a new structure asymmetry inductor using a 130 nm CMOS process. The proposed asymmetry inductor is designed with different widths and various spaces between turns. This improves the quality factor (Q-factor) by 30.8% compared to the conventional inductor and also, shifts up self-resonance frequency (SRF) from 4.8 GHz to 7.8 GHz. In turns, the proposed inductor causes a 2 dB improvement in the phase noise of the oscillator. By using a single switching voltage the proposed voltage-controlled oscillator works in triple bands with a tuning range of 34.5% from 2 to 2.9 GHz, and low phase noise of− 122 dBc/Hz@ 1-MHz offset frequency from 2.2 GHz carrier. The proposed VCO is class-C and draws 0.183 mA from 1 V supply voltage. The minimum achieved Figure-of-Merit (FOM) equals− 195.5 dBc/Hz and the …