Design of injection‐locked oscillator circuits using an HBT X‐parameters™‐based model
DATE:
2015-03
UNIVERSAL IDENTIFIER: http://hdl.handle.net/11093/4384
EDITED VERSION: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1049/iet-map.2014.0118
UNESCO SUBJECT: 3307.92 Microelectrónica. Tecnologías III-V y Alternativas ; 3325.04 Enlaces de Microondas ; 2211.25 Semiconductores
DOCUMENT TYPE: article
ABSTRACT
A load independent X-parameters-based heterojunction bipolar transistor (HBT) model has been used for the first time in the design and behaviour prediction of injection-locked oscillator circuits. This model has been extracted from load-pull measurements with a large-signal network analyser and, in order to obtain a high oscillator RF power, targeting a load impedance close to the optimum one for HBT maximum output power. A methodology is given to obtain robust injection-locked oscillator circuits with a high-synchronisation bandwidth. Several injection-locked oscillator prototypes have been designed and fabricated, and their measurements compared with the simulations obtained using the X-parameters model. Satisfactory results were obtained when the prototypes were operated as free-running and synchronised oscillators.