• Journal of Semiconductor Engineering
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• 제1권1호
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• pp.1-12
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• 2020

Handling precise timing in high-speed transceivers has always been a primary design target to achieve better performance. Many different approaches have been tried, and one of those is utilizing the beneficial nature of injection locking. Though the phenomenon was not intended for building integrated circuits at first, its coupling effect between neighboring oscillators has been utilized deliberately. Consequently, the dynamics of the injection-locked oscillator (ILO) have been explored, starting from R. Adler. As many aspects of the ILO were revealed, further studies followed to utilize the technique in practice, suggesting alternatives to the conventional frequency syntheses, which tend to be complicated and expensive. In this review, the historical analysis techniques from R. Adler are studied for better comprehension with proper notation of the variables, resulting in numerical results. In addition, how the timing jitter or phase noise in the ILO is attenuated from noise sources is presented in contrast to the clock generators based on the phase-locked loop (PLL). Although the ILO is very promising with higher cost effectiveness and better noise immunity than other schemes, unless correctly controlled or tuned, the promises above might not be realized. In order to present the favorable conditions, several strategies have been explored in diverse applications like frequency multiplication, data recovery, frequency division, clock distribution, etc. This paper reviews those research results for clock multiplication and data recovery in detail with their advantages and disadvantages they are referring to. Through this review, the readers will hopefully grasp the overall insight of the ILO, as well as its practical issues, in order to incorporate it on silicon successfully.

• 한국전기전자재료학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국전기전자재료학회 1997년도 춘계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.239-244
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• 1997

A hair-pin shaped microstrip-line resonator and a dielectric resonator for injection-locked oscillators have been designed and fabricated for the comparative studying of their characteristics. In general, a commonly used dielectric resonator shows lower phase noise value than hair-pin resonator in the free-running mode. In the injection-locked mode, however, a hair-pin resonator is superior to the dielectric resonator; the wider tuning range, the 22% improved locking bandwidth, the lower noise effect, the short term stability, and the higher power level. The planar structure of a hair-pin shaped microstrip-line resonator will be easily applied to monolithic microwave integrated circuits.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and information Science
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• 제2권6호
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• pp.171-176
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• 1997

A hair-pin shaped microstrip-line resonator and dielectric resonator for injection-locked oscillators have been designed and fabricated for the comparative studying of their performances. In general, a commonly used dielectric resonator shows lower phase noise value than hair-pin resonator in the free-running mode. In the injection-locked mode, however, a hair-pin resonator is superior to the dielectric resonator, the wider tuning range, the 22% improved locking bandwidth, the lower noise effect, the short term stability, and the higher power level. The planar structure of a hair-pin shaped microstrip-line resonator will be easily applied to monolithic microwave integrated circuits.

• 한국전자파학회논문지
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• 제22권3호
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• pp.292-298
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• 2011

본 논문에서는 전압 제어 특성을 이용하여 광대역에서 사용 가능한 주입 동기 발진기를 제안하였다. 주입 동기 발진기의 공진 회로에 바렉터 다이오드를 포함시켜 다이오드의 바이어스 전압을 제어하여 자유 발진 주파수를 가변 가능하도록 하였으며, 이를 통해 주입 동기 신호의 입력 레벨이 낮더라도 광대역에서 동작이 가능하도록 하였다. 제안된 주입 동기 발진기는 0.8 mm 두께를 갖는 FR-4 기판을 사용하여 제작되었으며, 0~5 V의 제어 전압을 주어졌을 때, 자유 발진 주파수는 2.39~2.52 GHz로 가변이 가능하였다. 주파수 고정시 -10 dBm의 입력 신호 레벨에서 주파수 동기 범위가 50 MHz 이상이며, 주파수 가변을 통해 -30 dBm의 낮은 주입 신호레벨에서 90 MHz의 주파수 동기 범위를 얻을 수 있었다.