Paper Info
Title
Design And Simulation Of A 10 Ghz Vco Using An Rf Mems Solenoid Inductor
Abstract
This paper reports the design and simulation of a 10 GHz VCO using a RF MEMS solenoid inductor. We have studied four solenoid inductors using an FEM software: we have focused our work to evaluate the effect of dielectric substrate and metal on the inductors responses. Higher performances are obtained using copper coil and SU8 dielectric substrate: SRF= 20.8 GHz, Q(max) = 60.9, and L = 2.6 nH at 10 GHz. Afterwards, we have designed and investigated a cross-coupled CMOS VCO based on the best RF MEMS solenoid inductor. The obtained results show a wide tuning range TR = 46% for frequency varying from 10 GHz to 14.6 GHz; and also a good linearity of frequency variations in response to control voltage. Moreover, output signals present a high voltage upper than 1.2 V and a low phase-noise PN = -102.37 dBc/Hz at 1 MHz. In addition, the spectral analyze show that the output peak power reaches 14.56 dBm at a center frequency of 10 GHz; the second harmonic is less than - 58.9 dBm.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1109/SSD.2018.8570656
2018 15TH INTERNATIONAL MULTI-CONFERENCE ON SYSTEMS, SIGNALS AND DEVICES (SSD)
Keywords
DocType
ISSN
MEMS, VCO, solenoid inductor, wide band, high frequency
Conference
2474-0438
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
0
Authors
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Nizar Habbachi100.68
Ali Boukabache200.68
Hatem Boussetta300.68
Patrick Pons400.68
Mohamed Adel Kallala500.68
Kamel Besbes64415.41