• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.24 no.11
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• pp.1104-1112
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• 2013

This paper presents a wideband Colpitts voltage controlled oscillator(VCO) with nanosecond startup time and a center frequency of 8.35 GHz for a new bubble-type motion detector that has a bubble-layer detection zone at the specific distance from itself. The VCO circuit consists of two parts; one is a negative resistance part with a HEMT device and Colpitts feedback structure and the other is a resonator part with a varactor diode and shorted shunt microstrip line. The shorted shunt microstrip line and series capacitor are utilized to compensate for the input reactance of the packaged HEMT that changes from capacitive values to inductive values at 8.1 GHz due to parasitic package inductance. By tuning the feedback capacitors which determine negative resistance values, this paper also investigates startup time improvement with the negative resistance variation and tuning bandwidth improvement with the reactance slope variation of the negative resistance part. The VCO measurement shows the tuning bandwidth of 2.3 GHz(28 %), the output power of 4.1~7.5 dBm and the startup time of less than 2 nsec.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2005.07c
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• pp.2333-2335
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• 2005

Various CMOS quadrature-voltage-controlled oscillators(QVCOs) are designed and fabricated for the comparison of the phase noise. The core VCO is composed of two Colpitts oscillators which are cross-coupled with PMOS pair. For the comparison of phase noise with the proposed scheme, the conventional LC VCO followed by the frequency-divide-by-two is designed. The simulation result demonstrate that the proposed scheme shows better phase noise performance by 6dB than that of a conventional scheme in which LC VCO is followed by the frequency-divide-by-two.

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.7 no.4
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• pp.715-720
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• 2012

This study presents a hybrid balanced voltage controlled oscillator (VCO) circuit which is suitable for low phase noise operation at sub-1V supply voltages. Half circuits of the proposed VCO use the varactor-integrated feedback capacitors in their respective circuit. The varactor-integrated feedback capacitors further increase the negative resistance of the equivalent tank thereby ensuring stable start-up of oscillation even at the sub-1V supply voltage. In addition, this work theoretically analyses the phenomenon of the increase of the negative resistance. Simulation results using a $0.18{\mu}m$ RF CMOS technology exhibit the phase noises of -122.4 to -125.5.8 dBc/Hz at 1 MHz offset from oscillation frequency of 4.87 GHz over the supply voltages of 0.6 through 0.9 V.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2003.11c
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• pp.37-40
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• 2003

The 1.63㎓, 2.33㎓ dual-band PLL frequency synthesizer has been developed for applications to the miniature repeater. The miniature dual-band repeater will be used at shopping mall, basements and underground parking lots. The in-loop 1.63㎓, 2.33㎓ dual-band PLL frequency synthesizer has been developed by designing Si BJT VCO and PLL loop circuits with Colpitts. The prototype of 1.63㎓, 2.33㎓ dual-band PLL frequency synthesizer of size 19${\times}$19${\times}$8(mm) has shown operating frequencies of 1.63㎓, 2.33㎓ ranges, RF output of 1dBm(PCS), 1dBm(IMT-2000), phase noise of -100 dBc/Hz(PCS), -95dBc/Hz(IMT-2000) at 10KHz offset, harmonics suppression of -24dB c(PCS), -15dBc(IMT-2000).