A study of some reported LC quadrature voltagecontrolled oscillators (LC-QVCO) is performed in which it is shown that robustness of the quadrature oscillation varies depending on the coupling configuration. Next, a new superharmonic LC-QVCO is proposed in which the common source node in either of two identical crossconnected LC-VCOs is coupled via a capacitor to the node common between the two ...

Tandem mass spectrometry coupled to liquid chromatography (LC-MS/MS) allows identification of proteins in a complex mixture without need for protein purification ("shotgun" proteomics). Recent progress in LC-MS/MS-based quantification, phosphoproteomic analysis, and targeted LC-MS/MS using multiple reaction monitoring (MRM) has made LC-MS/MS a powerful tool for the study of cell physiology.

100-200 MeV range ERL driven high gain FEL oscillators generating few cycle short, high intensity midIR pulses with tens of MHz repetition rates might become attractive tools in various strong field applications. In a recent study a mode-locked, coupled FEL oscillator scheme has been presented to generate multi-mJ level, ultra-short (<10 cycles) output pulses tunable within the entire IR region...

Many models, such as topcolor-assisted technicolor (TC2) models and flavoruniversal TC2 models, predict the existence of extra U(1) gauge bosons Z ′, which couple preferentially to the third generation. The lepton flavor violating (LFV) signals of these new particles at the future e+e− colliders (LCs) are discussed via calculating its contributions to the LFV process e+e− → μτ . We calculate th...

Phase noise in mutually synchronized oscillator systems is analyzed for arbitrary coupling and injection-locking topologies, neglecting amplitude noise, and amplitude modulation (AM) to phase modulation (PM) conversion. When the coupling phase is chosen properly (depending on the oscillator model), the near-carrier phase noise is reduced to 1=N that of a single oscillator, provided the coupling...

Harmonic radiation from microstrip patch oscillators is examined experimentally and theoretically using both a single and dual parallel-tuned circuit Van der Pol oscillator model. Closed-form expressions are obtained for the fundamental and first harmonic voltage amplitudes, and results show reasonably good agreement with a commercial circuit simulator. Such expressions will be useful for desig...

A dual-band monolithic voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO) has been fabricated by using the 0.18 lm 1P6M CMOS technologies. The switching transistors concept used in the tank circuit realizes the dual-band VCO operation. In order to reduce the phase noise, the pMOS transistors were used in the VCO design. The dual-band VCO demonstrates the phase noise (100 kHz offset) of )98 dBc/Hz at 2.6 GHz a...

A high voltage RF oscillator circuit has been designed and constructed for driving multipole ion guides. The circuit is tunable from 500 kHz to 1.5 MHz by changing a capacitor and provides 0-1000 V(p-p) that is controlled by a 0-10 V input using a negative feedback circuit. This inexpensive circuit uses a set of high voltage transistors oscillating in tandem and does not require tuning of the r...

1 College of Applied Science, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing 100124, China 2 Key Laboratory of Intelligent Information Processing, Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China 3College of Computer Science and Technology, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing 100124, China {mengyong2007, fmfang}@emails.bjut.edu.cn, {qiaoyuanhua, ljduan}@bju...

This paper presents a Ku-band (14–16 GHz) CMOS frequency-modulated continuous-wave (FMCW) radar transceiver developed to measure dry-snow depth for water management purposes and to aid in retrieval of snow water equivalent. An on-chip direct digital frequency synthesizer and digital-toanalog converter digitally generates a chirping waveform which then drives a ring oscillator-based Ku-Band phas...