In our research group we have developed and used during the last few year an innovative technique for frequency generation where the injection locked oscillator are the core. However, this circuits that we found in electronics, but also in other disciplines such as mechanics, biology and fundamental physics, hide still some secrets.
In this PhD you will be starting with the existing knowledge about these circuits leveraging in the broad experience of the research team and you will contribute to extend this knowledge to understand the impact of external perturbations and manufacturing tolerances on the operation of such circuit, for next proposing and implementing self-calibration and stabilization techniques.
The. applications of this circuits are broad, but some of the most appealing are found in the field of high-speed mmW wireless and wired links, extremely high resolution radar, vital signs detection for medical applications and quantum experiments (such as resonant paramagnetic spectrometry.
Depending on the advancement of the research the proposed self-calibration technique will be applied in one of the existing developments in our group in one of these fields.