%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 %0 Journal Article %J IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers %D 2015 %T Design of Low-Noise K -Band SiGe Bipolar VCOs: Theory and Implementation %A Padovan, F. %A Tiebout, M. %A Mertens, K.L.R. %A Bevilacqua, A. %A Neviani, A. %K $K$-band %K Backhaul communications %K bipolar transistor %K Capacitance %K phase noise %K Q-factor %K Tuning %K Varactors %K voltage controlled oscillator %K voltage-controlled oscillators %B IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers %V 62 %P 607-615 %8 Feb %R 10.1109/TCSI.2014.2364100 %0 Conference Paper %B 2015 Asia-Pacific Microwave Conference (APMC) %D 2015 %T SiGe BiCMOS VCO with 27% tuning range for 5G communications %A Padovan, F. %A Tiebout, M. %A F. Dielacher %A Bevilacqua, A. %A Neviani, A. %K 5G communications %K 5G mobile communication %K BiCMOS integrated circuits %K BiCMOS VCO %K current 8 mA %K frequency 12 GHz to 15.9 GHz %K Frequency measurement %K Ge-Si alloys %K Heterojunction bipolar transistors %K microwave oscillators %K oscillator core %K phase noise %K SiGe %K Silicon germanium %K transformer-coupled varactor %K Tuning %K Varactors %K voltage 3.3 V %K voltage-controlled oscillators %B 2015 Asia-Pacific Microwave Conference (APMC) %V 1 %P 1-3 %8 Dec %R 10.1109/APMC.2015.7411748 %0 Conference Paper %B Proceedings of the 2012 ESSCIRC %D 2012 %T A SiGe bipolar VCO for backhaul E-band communication systems %A Padovan, F. %A Tiebout, M. %A Mertens, K. %A Bevilacqua, A. %A Neviani, A. %K backhaul E-band communication system %K bipolar integrated circuits %K frequency 18.9 GHz to 22.1 GHz %K Frequency measurement %K frequency multiplier %K Ge-Si alloys %K K-band %K K-band SiGe bipolar VCO %K microwave oscillators %K phase noise %K SiGe %K Silicon germanium %K Tuning %K voltage-controlled oscillators %B Proceedings of the 2012 ESSCIRC %P 402 -405 %8 Sept. %R 10.1109/ESSCIRC.2012.6341279