A Ka-Band MMIC Oscillator Stabilized with a Micromachined Cavity

Youngwoo Kwon; Changyul Cheon; Nyuntae Kim; Chungwoo Kim; Insang Song; Cimoo Song

doi:10.1109/75.790474

A Ka-Band MMIC Oscillator Stabilized with a Micromachined Cavity

Youngwoo Kwon, Changyul Cheon, Nyuntae Kim, Chungwoo Kim, Insang Song, Cimoo Song

School of Electrical and Computer Engineering

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Abstract

Low-cost stable oscillators with good phase noise performance are in high demand for emerging millimeter (mm)- wave commercial applications. To overcome the problems of conventional DRO's and cavity oscillators at mm-waves, a new type of oscillator based on micromachining techniques is developed at Ka-band. A cavity resonator is fabricated using micromachining technique and is employed to stabilize a 33-GHz monolithic microwave integrated circuit (MMIC) oscillator. A micromachined cavity oscillator (MCO) showed a phase noise of 113 dBc/Hz at 1MHz offset, which is an 18-dB improvement over an MMIC free-running oscillator (FRO). This work demonstrates the great potential of MCO for low-cost mm-wave frequency sources.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	360-362
Number of pages	3
Journal	IEEE Microwave and Guided Wave Letters
Volume	9
Issue number	9
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/75.790474
State	Published - Sep 1999

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MEMS
MMIC
oscillator
phase noise

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