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IEEETRANSACTIONSONMICROWAVETHEORYANDTECHNIQUES,VOL.63,NO.5,MAY2015 1645 A47.6–71.0-GHz65-nmCMOSVCOBasedon MagneticallyCoupled -TypeLC Network Haikun Jia, Student Member, IEEE, Baoyong Chi, Member, IEEE, Lixue Kuang, Member, IEEE,andZhihua Wang, Senior Member, IEEE Abstract—Awidetuningrangemillimeter-wavevoltage-con- canbewidenedbyincreasingthesizeofthevaractorsforlow trolledoscillator(VCO)basedonamagneticallycoupled -type VCOs, LC networkin65-nmCMOSisproposed.Byconfiguringthe switchednegative-resistanceunit,theVCOcanoscillateatthe evenmodeortheoddmodeofthemagneticallycoupled -type (1) LC network, thus the tuning range is widened without intro- ducingtheswitchlossintotheresonator.TheproposedVCO However,itisnotafeasiblesolutionforthemillimeter-wave achieves a measured continuous tuning range of 39%, from (mm-wave)VCOsduetopoorqualityfactor( )varactorsin 47.6 to 71.0 GHz. The measured phase noise for a 47.6-GHz mm-waveband.Thepoorqualityfactorvaractorsdominatethe carrierattheevenmodeand56.2-GHzcarrierattheoddmode lossofthemm-waveLC resonator.Ifthevaractorsizeisin- are 110.3and 107.3dBc/Hzat10-MHzoffsetwithacorre- sponding of 185.5 and 183.9dBc/Hz, respectively. creased,theresonatorlosswouldbeincreased.Alargersize Themeasuredphasenoiseinthewholefrequencytuningrange negative-resistancecellisrequiredtosatisfythestartuposcil- variesfrom 101.7to 113.4dBc/Hzat10-MHzoffset,while lationcondition,whichwould,inturn,contributemorepara- thecorrespondingfigure-of-merit(FOM)and varyfrom siticcapacitanceto ,degradingthetuningrangeandtensing 167.8to 179.0dBand 179.6to190.6dB,respectively.The VCO core consumes 8.9–10.4-mA current from 1.0-V power thealreadylimite