Research Article

Transition Frequencies and Negative Resistance of Inductively Terminated CMOS Buffer Cell and Application in MMW LC VCO

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A small signal lumped RF model of the proposed negative resistance source follower buffer cell, (b)–(e) its subsequent transformations (neglecting the small resistances and ) leading to the final lumped model in (f) to find and (g) NMOS cross-section showing the interlaced location of the distributed source resistance with respect to and .
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