A 67 GHz GaN voltage-controlled oscillator MMIC with high output power

This letter describes the design and the realization of a fixed-frequency oscillator and voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO) MMIC realized in an AlGaN/GaN HEMT technology with 100 nm gate length. Both oscillators achieve output power levels of almost 20 dBm without post-amplification. The oscillation frequency of the fixed-frequency oscillator is 65.6 GHz, while the VCO can be tuned from 65.6 to 68.8 GHz, which leads to a relative bandwidth of 5%. The phase noise of the VCO is dBc/Hz at 1 MHz frequency offset.