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Classic and fundamental papers on jitter and phase noise in chronological order:

D. B. Leeson, \'93A Simple Model of Feedback Oscillator Noise Spectrum\'94, Proceedings of the IEEE, vol. 54, pp. 329-330, Feb. 1966.

D. Halford, J. H. Shoaf, and A. S. Risley, \'93Spectral Density Analysis: Frequency Domain Specification and Measurement of Signal Stability\'94, in 27th Annual Symposium on Frequency Control, June 1973, pp. 421-431.

A. Abidi and R. G. Meyer, \'93Noise in Relaxation Oscillators\'94, IEEE Journal of Solid State Circuits, pp. 794-802, Dec. 1983.

D. Sullivan, D. Allan, D. Howe, and F. Walls, \'93Characterization of Clocks and Oscillators\'94, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Tech. Rep., Jan. 1990, technical Note 1337.

F. X. Kaertner, \'93Analysis of White and f^(-alpha) Noise in Oscillators\'94, International Journal of Circuit Theory and Applications, vol. 18, pp. 485-519, 1990.

J. Rutman and F. L. Walls, \'93Characterization of Frequency Stability In Precision Frequency Sources\'94, Proceedings of the IEEE, vol. 79, no. 6, pp. 952-960, June 1991.

T. C. Weigandt, B. Kim, and P. R. Gray, \'93Analysis of timing jitter in CMOS ring oscillators\'94, Proceedings of the International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), vol. 4, pp. 27-30, 1994.

J. Craninckx and M. Steyaert \'93Low-Noise Voltage-Controlled Oscillators Using Enhanced LC Tanks\'94, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs, vol. 42, pp. 794-804, Dec. 1995.

S. Bregni, \'93Measurement of Maximum Time Interval Error for Telecommunications Clock Stability Characterization\'94, IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, vol. 45, no. 5, pp. 900-906, Oct. 1996.

B. Razavi, \'93A Study of Phase Noise in CMOS Oscillators\'94, IEEE Journal of Solid State Circuits, pp. 331-343, Mar. 1996.

J. A. McNeill, \'93Jitter in Ring Oscillators\'94, IEEE Journal of Solid State Circuits, vol. 32, no. 6, pp. 870-879, June 1997.

C. Samori, A. L. Lacaita, A. Zanchi, and F. Pizzolato, \'93Experimental verification of the link between timing jitter and phase noise\'94, Electronics Letters, vol. 34, no. 21, pp. 2024-2025, Oct. 1998.

A. Hajimiri and T. H. Lee, \'93A General Theory of Phase Noise in Electrical Oscillators\'94, IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, vol. 33, no. 2, pp. 179-194, Feb. 1998.

C. Samori, A. L. Lacaita, F. Villa, and F. Zappa, \'93Spectrum Folding and Phase Noise in LC Tuned Oscillators\'94, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs, vol. 45, no. 7, pp. 781-790, July 1998.

A. Hajimiri, S. Limotyrakis, and T. H. Lee, \'93Jitter and Phase Noise in Ring Oscillators\'94, IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, vol. 34, no. 6, pp. 790-804, June 1999.

F. Herzel and B. Razavi, \'93A study of oscillator jitter due to supply and substrate noise\'94, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs, vol. 46, pp. 56-62, Jan. 1999.

M. Li, J. Wilstrup, R. Jessen, and D. Petrich, \'93A New Method for Jitter Decomposition Through its Distribution Tail Fitting\'94, IEEE International Test Conference (ITC99), pp. 788-794, Sep. 1999.

A. Demir, A. Mehrotra, and J. Roychowdhury, \'93Phase noise in oscillators: A unifying theory and numerical methods for characterization\'94, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers, vol. 47, pp. 655-674, May 2000.

A. Demir, \'93Computing Timing Jitter from Phase Noise Spectra for Oscillators and Phase-Locked Loops with White and 1/f Noise\'94, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers, vol. 53, no. 9, pp. 1869-1884, Sep. 2000.

E. Hegazi, H. Sjoland, and A. A. Abidi, \'93A Filtering Technique to Lower LC Oscillator Phase Noise\'94, IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, vol. 36, no. 12, pp. 1921-1930, Dec. 2001.

D. Ham and A. Hajimiri, \'93Concepts and Methods in Optimization of Integrated LC VCOs\'94, IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, vol. 36, no. 6, pp. 896-909, June 2001.

N. D. Dalt, M. Harteneck, C. Sandner, and A. Wiesbauer, \'93On the Jitter Requirements of the Sampling Clock for Analog-to-Digital Converters\'94, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers, vol. 49, no. 9, pp. 1354-1360, Sep. 2002.

S. Levantino, L. Roman, S. Pellerano, C. Samori, and A. Lacaita, \'93Phase Noise in Digital Frequency Dividers\'94, IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, vol. 39, no. 5, pp. 775-784, May 2004.

C. Liu and J. A. McNeill, \'93Jitter in Oscillators with 1/f Noise Sources\'94, IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), vol. 1, pp. 773-776, 2004.

J. Vig, \'93Quartz Crystal Resonators and Oscillators\'94, IEEE Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control Society, Tech. Rep., 2004.

R. Navid, T. H. Lee, and R. W. Dutton, \'93Minimum achievable phase noise of RC oscillators\'94, IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, vol. 40, no. 3, pp. 630-637, Mar. 2005.

P. Andreani, X.Wang, L. Vandi, and A. Fard, \'93A Study of Phase Noise in Colpitts and LC-Tank CMOS Oscillators\'94, IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, vol. 40, no. 5, pp. 1107-1118, May 2005.

A. Abidi, \'93Phase Noise and Jitter in CMOS Ring Oscillators\'94, IEEE Journal of Solid State Circuits, pp. 1803-1816, Aug. 2006.

P. Andreani and A. Fard, \'93More on the 1/f2 Phase Noise Performance of CMOS Differential-Pair LC-Tank Oscillators\'94, IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, vol. 41, no. 12, pp. 2703-2712, Dec. 2006.

IEEE Standard Definitions of Physical Quantities for Fundamental Frequency and Time Metrology: Random Instabilities\'94, IEEE Std 1139-2008, pp. c1-35, Feb 2008.

A. Mazzanti and P. Andreani, "Class-C Harmonic CMOS VCOs, With a General Result on Phase Noise", IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, vol. 43, no. 12, pp. 2716-2728, Dec. 2008.

W. J. Riley, \'93Handbook of Frequency Stability Analysis\'94, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Tech. Rep., July 2008, special Publication 1065.

M. El-Chammas and B. Murmann, \'93General Analysis on the Impact of Phase-Skew in Time-Interleaved ADCs\'94, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers, vol. 56, no. 5, pp. 902-910, May 2009.

D. Murphy, J. J. Rael, and A. A. Abidi, \'93Phase Noise in LC Oscillators: A Phasor-Based Analysis of a General Result and of Loaded Q\'94, IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, vol. 57, no. 6, pp. 1187-1203, June 2010.

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