Electronic – make an oscillator with 160 MHz

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I want this for my project. So I have decided to make a basic Wien bridge oscillator.

$$f = \frac{1}{2\pi R C}$$

So if I choose a capacitor of 0.1 nano farads and a resistor of 10 ohms, I should get around 160 MHz.
Will I get the 160 MHz, I heard that a wine bridge cancels out higher frequencies.

Best Answer

Selecting suitable parts values is ONE problem, which - however - could be solved in this case. The bigger problem is to find a suitable operational amplifier. A Wien-type oscillator needs a gain of three - and to achieve this (without disturbing phase shifts) for a frequency of 160 MHz requires an opamp with a gain-bandwidth product of at least several GHz. Therefore, I recommend to try one of the classical transistor-based oscillator topologies.

EDIT1: Another problem connected with the use of opamps is the limited slew rate of these devices - even if you could find an opamp with the required gan-bandwidth product.

**EDIT2:**There are some special opamp topologies which can be used for an 160MHz Wien oscillator: Current-feedback amplifiers exhibit very large gain-bandwidth products and phantastic slew rates (SR). Example: OPA695 allows a gain of three at 160MHz with a slew rate SR=4300V/µs.