Owen Casha, who is carrying out postgraduate research in Microelectronics at our University, presented a paper last December at the 13th IEEE International Conference on Electronics Circuits and Systems, held in Nice.

The paper, titled "Design of a 1.2 V Low Phase Noise 1.6 GHz CMOS Buffered Quadrature Output VCO with Automatic Amplitude Control", co-authored by Ivan Grech, Joseph Micallef and Edward Gatt, was ranked as the third best student paper.

The award was presented to Mr Casha at the end of the conference. The paper describes the design and optimisation of a low phase noise 1.6 GHz Quadrature Output Voltage Controlled Oscillator with automatic amplitude control implemented in a 130 nanometre integrated circuit CMOS technology.

The development of nanoscale CMOS technology and the consequent design of nanoscale integrated circuits underpins the continuous rapid development in ICT.

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