Very Low Phase Noise Voltage Controlled Oscillator for 5G mm-wave Communication Systems

Abstract

A customized structure of the Colpitts VCO for the 5G millimeter band is presented in this paper, this structure has a very low phase noise level compared to other structures published in the literature. Simulation results show that our VCO has a tuning range of 1.69 GHz around 28 GHz, an output power of 3.3 dBm and a phase noise around -123.2dBc/Hz at 1 MHz offset frequency from carrier. The VCO is designed in MMIC technology using the pHEMT transistor of PH15 process from UMS foundry.