-In this paper an analysis and stochastic characterization of optimally controlled systems in the presence of environmental disturbances, additive input and observation noise, and subject to discontinuous-type parameter uncertainties is considered. As an illustrative example, the control of a spinning spacecraft is considered and some quantitative aspects of the stochastic behavior of the contr...

A novel varactor using single PMOS is proposed. By utilizing the capacitance difference between saturation and linear region, the proposed varactor can improve frequency resolution of a LC-tank based digitally controlled oscillator without introducing extra fixed loading capacitance. A digitally controlled oscillator with the proposed varactor is designed using 0.13μm CMOS technology for verifi...

This paper aims to introduce a quadrature VCO (voltage control oscillator) which applies superharmonic coupling. The presented quadrature VCO is suitable to be used, both with 2 × subharmonic mixers, as well as 4× subharmonic mixers. It would be impossible to avoid the presence of harmonics in CMOS VCO circuits. These harmonics are in general, undesirable signals which tend to accompany the des...

The effect of illumination on the surface interaction and the reaction between NO ? C2H5OH was investigated on TiO2 and Ag/TiO2. By means of Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy the formation of an absorption band at 2,210 cm was observed on pure TiO2, which was attributed to the NCO species. Similar measurements on Ag/TiO2 produced another spectral feature at 2,170 cm, which was assigned to...

This paper proposes an RF signal generator using a time domain harmonic suppression technique based on Fourier series analysis. The circuit consists of four differential ring voltage control oscillators (VCO’s) with phase differences and the pulse signal summing circuit. By summing pulse signals from VCO’s with appropriate phase differences determined by Fourier series in time domain, the third...

An approach to design of chaotic oscillators with controlled bandwidth in different frequency bands is proposed. One of possible mathematical models of the oscillator and simulation results are considered. Implementations of microwave chaotic oscillators and experimental results are demonstrated. Index terms – Dynamic chaos, chaotic oscillator, frequency-selective circuit, microstrip line, wide...

This paper presents a 20 GHz push-push VCO realized by a 10 GHz super-harmonic coupled quadrature oscillator for a quadrature 60 GHz frequency synthesizer. The output nodes are peaked by a tunable second harmonic resonator. The proposed VCO is implemented in 65 nm CMOS process. It achieves a tuning range of 3.5 GHz from 16.1 GHz to 19.6 GHz with a phase noise of −106 dBc/Hz at 1 MHz offset. The...

We report the first measurement of the vibrationaland rotational-state distributions in the NCO fragment resulting from photolysis of HNCO. Recent studies have drawn conclusions about the photochemistry of HNCO and the vibrational distribution in the NCO fragment from observations of the kinetic energy distribution of the H atom produced in this photolysis; however, there has been no direct obs...

A low phase noise, low dissipated power and small sized Ka-band voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO), using dual cross-coupled pair configuration and capacitance-splitting technique is presented. The Ka-band VCO circuit uses 0.15 μm GaAs pHEMT technology. The VCO has low phase noise, of 116.36 dBc/Hz, at a 1 MHz offset and can be tuned from 30.5 to 31.22 GHz. The figure of merit (FOM) is -192.36...

This paper presents an ultra low power clock source using a 1μW temperature compensated on-chip digitally controlled oscillator (OscCMP) and a 100nW uncompensated oscillator (OscUCMP) with respective temperature stabilities of 5ppm/C and 1.67%/C. A fast locking circuit re-locks OscUCMP to OscCMP often enough to achieve a high effective temperature stability. Measurements of a 130nm CMOS chip sh...