%0 Conference Paper %B 2019 IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium (RFIC) %D 2019 %T A 18.2-29.3 GHz Colpitts VCOs bank with -119.5 dBc/Hz Phase Noise at 1 MHz Offset for 5G Communications %A F. Quadrelli %A F. Panazzolo %A M. Tiebout %A F. Padovan %A M. Bassi %A Bevilacqua, A. %K 5G %K BiCMOS %K BiCMOS integrated circuits %K Colpitts %K phase noise %K Silicon germanium %K Topology %K Tuning %K Varactors %K voltage controlled oscillators %B 2019 IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium (RFIC) %8 June %G eng %0 Conference Paper %B 2018 IEEE International Solid - State Circuits Conference - (ISSCC) %D 2018 %T A quad-core 15GHz BiCMOS VCO with -124dBc/Hz phase noise at 1MHz offset, -189dBc/Hz FOM, and robust to multimode concurrent oscillations %A F. Padovan %A F. Quadrelli %A M. Bassi %A M. Tiebout %A Bevilacqua, A. %K 1/f noise %K BiCMOS analogue integrated circuits %K bipolar MMIC %K bipolar transistors %K circuit tuning %K coupling network %K Couplings %K figure-of-merit %K frequency 15.0 GHz %K higher-Q passives %K larger oscillation amplitudes %K local oscillators %K minimum phase noise %K MMIC oscillators %K multimode concurrent oscillations %K multitone concurrent oscillations %K N oscillators %K next-generation communication %K phase noise %K quad-core BiCMOS VCO %K quad-core bipolar VCO %K radar systems %K resistivity substrate %K Robustness %K single voltage-controlled oscillator %K supply voltage %K symbol constellations %K Temperature measurement %K Tuning %K ultra-scaled CMOS %K voltage-controlled oscillators %B 2018 IEEE International Solid - State Circuits Conference - (ISSCC) %8 Feb %G eng %R 10.1109/ISSCC.2018.8310341 %0 Conference Paper %B ESSCIRC 2017 - 43rd IEEE European Solid State Circuits Conference %D 2017 %T A 21GHz 20.5%-tuning range Colpitts VCO with -119 dBc/Hz phase noise at 1MHz offset %A F. Boscolo %A Padovan, F. %A F. Quadrelli %A Tiebout, M. %A Neviani, A. %A Bevilacqua, A. %K BiCMOS integrated circuits %K bipolar MMIC %K current 17.5 mA %K frequency 1 MHz %K frequency 18.8 GHz to 23.1 GHz %K Ge-Si alloys %K microwave oscillators %K oscillator figure-of-merit %K phase noise %K SiGe %K SiGe BiCMOS Colpitts VCO %K Silicon germanium %K transformer-coupled varactor %K Tuning %K Varactors %K very low phase noise %K voltage 4 V %K voltage controlled oscillator %K voltage-controlled oscillators %B ESSCIRC 2017 - 43rd IEEE European Solid State Circuits Conference %P 91-94 %8 Sept %R 10.1109/ESSCIRC.2017.8094533