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Low phase noise, FBAR-based voltage controlled oscillator without varactor

Jong Jin Kim, Hao Zhang, Wei Kong Pang, Hongyu Yu, Eun Sok Kim

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A Colpitts voltage controlled oscillator (VCO) at 1.1 GHz is designed with a film bulk acoustic resonator (FBAR) as the frequency control element. The oscillator achieves an extremely low phase noise of -115 dBc/Hz at 10 kHz offset, which is 19 dB better than that of an LC oscillator. Voltage control of the oscillation frequency is obtained by applying a DC voltage on the FBAR, unlike a conventional VCO that uses a PN junction varactor (a significant noise contributor) to vary the oscillation frequency. The frequency tunability of the VCO is approximately -12 kHz/V between -5 V and +10 V.

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Key concepts: Voltage-controlled oscillator, Colpitts oscillator, Phase noise, Varicap, dBc, Materials science, Vackář oscillator, Optoelectronics