A novel 12-stage VCO with in-phase and quadrature outputs at the 3rd harmonic of the oscillating frequency is presented. It employs coupled inverter rings. A new linear model of coupled inverter rings ...

Mixed-Signal Devices' latest timing portfolio delivers sub-20-fs jitter, 2-GHz performance and rugged thermal stability, ...

Organic single crystal/polymer hybrid actuators that can be applied in extreme conditions such as polar regions and space are extremely important and rare. Herein, we report an extremely simple but ...

The Internet-of-Things (IoT) radios are aggressively duty-cycled to reduce the average power consumption, but the startup time and energy of the crystal oscillator can limit their on-off latency and ...