{"title":"Wide tuning range inversion-mode gated varactor and its application on a 2-GHz VCO","authors":"W. Wong, F. Hui, Zhiheng Chen, J. Lau","doi":"10.1109/VLSIC.1999.797233","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a novel inversion-mode three-terminal varactor with a capacitance ranging from 0.7 pF to 2.3 pF, achieving a /spl plusmn/53% variation in the capacitance. The new device is implemented in a 0.35-/spl mu/m standard CMOS process. The measured quality factor is 22 at 2 GHz. A 2-GHz VCO is designed with this new varactor and is able to achieve a tuning range of 320 MHz with a maximum tuning gain of 220 MHz/V.","PeriodicalId":433264,"journal":{"name":"1999 Symposium on VLSI Circuits. Digest of Papers (IEEE Cat. No.99CH36326)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1999-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"6","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"1999 Symposium on VLSI Circuits. Digest of Papers (IEEE Cat. No.99CH36326)","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/VLSIC.1999.797233","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
This paper presents a novel inversion-mode three-terminal varactor with a capacitance ranging from 0.7 pF to 2.3 pF, achieving a /spl plusmn/53% variation in the capacitance. The new device is implemented in a 0.35-/spl mu/m standard CMOS process. The measured quality factor is 22 at 2 GHz. A 2-GHz VCO is designed with this new varactor and is able to achieve a tuning range of 320 MHz with a maximum tuning gain of 220 MHz/V.