A 2-GHz FBAR-Based Transformer Coupled Oscillator Design With Phase Noise Reduction

The oscillator architecture is proposed to reduce the close-in phase noise as well as power consumption. The proposed Colpitts oscillator removes the current source which is the main source of the 1/f noise conversion. The removal of the current source is compensated by using the transformer and cross-coupled capacitors. The 2-GHz film bulk acoustic resonator (FBAR) is used for the high Q frequency selective elements in the oscillator design. According to measurement results, this FBAR-based oscillator shows ≥ 10 dB reduction in close-in phase noise. Specifically, 12-dB lower phase noise is achieved at 100 Hz offset frequency. Measured power consumption is 350 uW, which is almost half of the conventional Colpitts oscillator using same FBAR device.