A low-power low-noise mm-wave subsampling PLL using dual-step-mixing ILFD and tail-coupling quadrature injection-locked oscillator for IEEE 802.11 ad

T Siriburanon, S Kondo, M Katsuragi… - IEEE Journal of Solid …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a low-power low-noise 60 GHz frequency synthesizer using a 20 GHz
subsampling phase-locked loop (SS-PLL) and a 60 GHz tail-coupling quadrature injection …

Multi-phase injection widens lock range of ring-oscillator-based frequency dividers

A Mirzaei, ME Heidari, R Bagheri… - IEEE Journal of Solid …, 2008 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Injection-locked oscillators divide at very high frequencies and consume low power. They
are not widely deployed in commercial products because they operate over small, often …

A general theory of injection locking and pulling in electrical oscillators—Part I: Time-synchronous modeling and injection waveform design

B Hong, A Hajimiri - IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A general model of electrical oscillators under the influence of a periodic injection is
presented. Stemming solely from the autonomy and periodic time variance inherent in all …

A silicon-based 0.3 THz frequency synthesizer with wide locking range

PY Chiang, Z Wang, O Momeni… - IEEE Journal of Solid …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A 300 GHz frequency synthesizer incorporating a triple-push VCO with Colpitts-based active
varactor (CAV) and a divider with three-phase injection is introduced. The CAV provides …

A General Theory of Injection Locking and Pulling in Electrical Oscillators—Part II: Amplitude Modulation in Oscillators, Transient Behavior, and Frequency …

B Hong, A Hajimiri - IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A number of specialized topics within the theory of injection locking and pulling are
addressed. The material builds on our impulse sensitivity function (ISF)-based, time …

A phasor-based analysis of sinusoidal injection locking in LC and ring oscillators

B Hong, A Hajimiri - IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A new perspective into the locking behavior of LC and ring oscillators is presented. By
decomposing a sinusoidal injection current into in-phase and quadrature-phase …

Modeling oscillator injection locking using the phase domain response

D Dunwell, AC Carusone - … on Circuits and Systems I: Regular …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a simulation-based model for the behavior of injection-locked oscillators
(ILOs) that can be applied to any oscillator topology under any strength of injected signal. By …

Neural Dielet: A 0.4 mm Battery-Less Crystal-Less Neural-Recording System on Die Achieving 1.6 cm Backscatter Range With 2 mm ×2 mm On-Chip Antenna

C Yang, Y Zhang, Z Chang, Z Li, H Gao… - … Circuits and Systems, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Miniaturization is essential in the design of wireless neural-recording systems. In recent
years, the battery in neural-recording systems can be eliminated by wireless power transfer …

A single-chip single-antenna radar for remote vital sign monitoring

H Reggad, X Jiang, X Wu… - IEEE Transactions …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article proposes an effective way to use self-injection locking (SIL) in a radar system to
detect human chest cavity movement for vital signs monitoring with minimal hardware. The …

A DTC-Free Fractional-N BBPLL With FIR-Embedded Injection-Locked-Oscillator-Based Phase-Domain Lowpass Filter

L Feng, W Rhee, Z Wang - IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The all-digital fractional-N bang-bang PLL (BBPLL) requires a high-resolution digital-to-time
converter (DTC) with complex nonlinearity calibration or compensation. For the design of a …