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Published November 1, 2005 | public
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Octave-tunable miniature RF resonators

Abstract

The development and testing of a miniaturized, high-Q, broadly tunable resonator is described. An exemplary device, with a center frequency that is continuously tunable from 1.2 to 2.6 GHz, was tested in detail. Experimental results demonstrated a resonator Q of up to 380, and typical insertion loss of -1.9 dB for a 25 MHz 3-dB bandwidth. These resonators have been used to stabilize a broadly-tunable oscillator with phase noise of -132 dBc/Hz at 100-kHz offset, with a center frequency tunable from 1.2-2.6 GHz, and a tuning speed of 1 GHz/ms.

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© 2005 IEEE. Reproduced with permisssion. Manuscript received April 4, 2005; revised July 15, 2005. [Posted online: 2005-10-31] The work was supported in part by the MIT Deshpande Center for Technological Innovation. The review of this letter was arranged by Associate Editor M. Mozowski. The authors wish to thank Dr. D. Ham, Harvard University, for assistance with the microwave testing.

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