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9 September 2025

Phase-Locked Loops (PLLs) are fundamental building blocks in modern electronic systems, enabling precise frequency synthesis, signal synchronization, and clock generation. This paper provides a comprehensive system-level analysis of PLLs, covering th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,581 Views
13 Pages

28 November 2022

In order to improve the ability of the phase-locked loop (PLL) microsystem applied in the aerospace environment to suppress the irradiation effect, this study presents an efficient charge pump hardened scheme by using the radiation-hardened-by-design...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,557 Views
13 Pages

10 September 2024

This paper proposes an adaptive acceleration lock compensation technology for phase-locked loops (PLLs) based on a novel dual-mode programmable ring voltage-controlled oscillator (ring-VCO). In addition, a time-to-digital converter (TDC) is designed...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,266 Views
25 Pages

A Novel Repetitive Control Enhanced Phase-Locked Loop for Synchronization of Three-Phase Grid-Connected Converters

  • Filip Filipović,
  • Milutin Petronijević,
  • Nebojša Mitrović,
  • Bojan Banković and
  • Vojkan Kostić

26 December 2019

This paper proposes the enhancement of a synchronous reference frame phase-locked loop in terms of its dynamic response and disturbance rejection capability. The improvements were undertaken in order to upgrade the converter grid support capability r...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,566 Views
13 Pages

Mechanism of Phase-Locked Ice Crushing against Offshore Structures

  • Bin Wang,
  • Shan Gao,
  • Yan Qu,
  • Haoyang Yin and
  • Zhenju Chuang

This paper addresses a detailed analysis of the ice–structure interaction process of the phase-locked ice crushing (PLC) against offshore structures. Directly measured ice load, structure response data, and in situ observation from the field me...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,173 Views
18 Pages

Grid Synchronization Enhancement of Distributed Generators Using an Adaptive Phase-Locked Loop Tuning System

  • Ahmed M. Elkholy,
  • Ibrahim B. M. Taha,
  • Salah Kamel and
  • Mohamed K. El-Nemr

24 February 2022

This paper proposes an effective algorithm; this algorithm is updating the phase-locked loop (PLL) gains according to the value of the short circuit ratio that will decrease the weak grid effect in the PLL controllers to reduce problems related to re...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
4 Citations
6,469 Views
12 Pages

Uniform Linear Antenna Array Beamsteering Based on Phase-Locked Loops

  • Anil Chepala,
  • Vincent Fusco,
  • Umair Naeem and
  • Adrian McKernan

Phased arrays are extensively used in many modern beam-scanning applications such as radar and satellite communications. Electronic beam scanning makes phased arrays an important aspect of modern antenna array systems. This Tutorial aims to promote t...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,906 Views
14 Pages

This paper presents a wideband fractional-N all-digital phase-locked loop (WBPLL) architecture featuring a triple-loop configuration capable of tuning frequencies from 1.9 to 6.1 GHz. The first and second loops, automatic frequency control (AFC) and...

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  • Open Access
13 Citations
2,624 Views
20 Pages

29 March 2023

The precise control of output power by grid-connected converters relies on the correct identification and tracking of a grid voltage’s phase at the converter terminal. During severe grid faults, large disturbances cause the converter’s op...

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  • Open Access
20 Citations
14,919 Views
14 Pages

Design and Emulation of All-Digital Phase-Locked Loop on FPGA

  • Saichandrateja Radhapuram,
  • Takuya Yoshihara and
  • Toshimasa Matsuoka

7 November 2019

This paper demonstrates the design and implementation of an all-digital phase-locked loop (ADPLL) on Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA). It is useful as an emulation technique to show the feasibility and effectiveness of the ADPLL in the early desi...

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  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,339 Views
24 Pages

23 September 2021

In this paper, an adaptive version of the impedance-conditioned phase-locked loop (IC-PLL), namely the adaptive IC-PLL (AIC-PLL), is proposed. The IC-PLL has recently been proposed to address the issue of synchronisation with a weak AC grid by supple...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,461 Views
16 Pages

An All-Digital Optical Phase-Locked Loop Suitable for Satellite Downlinks

  • Jognes Panasiewicz,
  • Nisrine Arab,
  • Fabien Destic,
  • Gefeson M. Pacheco and
  • Angélique Rissons

28 November 2023

The optical signal propagation used in satellite uplinks and downlinks is influenced by absorption, scattering, and changes in the atmospheric refractive index or turbulence, causing optical signal attenuation. A free space optics (FSO) communication...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
4 Citations
5,012 Views
11 Pages

23 November 2018

Synchronization of large acquisition bandwidth brings great challenges to the traditional second-order phase-locked loop (PLL). To address the contradiction between acquisition bandwidth and noise suppression capability of the traditional PLL, a new...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,340 Views
14 Pages

A Simplified GmC Filter Technique for Reference Spur Reduction in Phase-Locked Loop

  • P. Purushothama Chary,
  • Rizwan Shaik Peerla and
  • Ashudeb Dutta

This paper presents a wideband approach for L5 and S-band integer-N phase-locked loop (PLL) targeting Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System (IRNSS) applications. A reference spur reduction technique using a GmC filter is proposed. The re...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,096 Views
17 Pages

MEMS resonators have attracted attention for their wide applications in highly accurate clock references, sensors, wireless communications, frequency control, etc. Most of the output frequencies of MEMS resonators require post-processing or calibrati...

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  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,722 Views
22 Pages

30 November 2020

Low-cost single-phase grid connected converters require synchronization with the grid voltage to obtain a better response and protection under diverse conditions, such as frequency perturbations and distortion. Phase-locked loops (PLLs) have been use...

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
5,240 Views
15 Pages

A Low Mismatch Current Charge Pump Applied to Phase-Locked Loops

  • Min Guo,
  • Lixin Wang,
  • Shixin Wang,
  • Jiacheng Lu and
  • Mengyao Cui

14 July 2024

This paper presents a charge pump circuit with a wide output range and low current mismatch applied to phase-locked loops. In this designed structure, T-shaped analog switches are adopted to suppress the non-ideal effects of clock feedthrough, switch...

  • Article
  • Open Access
38 Citations
5,645 Views
19 Pages

29 March 2019

In traditional sensorless control of the interior permanent magnet synchronous motors (IPMSMs) for medium and high speed domains, a control strategy based on a sliding-mode observer (SMO) and phase-locked loop (PLL) is widely applied. A new strategy...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,445 Views
17 Pages

In distributed energy grid-connected systems, fast and accurate grid synchronization technology is crucial for system stability. This article proposes an improved phase-locked loop (FECSOGI-PLL) based on frequency error compensation. By introducing a...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,454 Views
15 Pages

24 July 2024

El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) usually peaks in the boreal winter—November to January of the following year. This particular feature of ENSO is known as the seasonal phase locking of ENSO. In this study, based on 34 climate mo...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,141 Views
25 Pages

10 April 2020

The goal of this paper is to explore the effect of various parameters on the information geometric structure of the phase-locked loop (PLL) statistics, both transient and stationary. Comprehensive treatment on the behavior of PLL statistics will be g...

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  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,219 Views
11 Pages

Low-phase noise and wideband phased-locked loops (PLLs) are crucial for high-data rate communication and imaging systems. Sub-millimeter-wave (sub-mm-wave) PLLs typically exhibit poor performance in terms of noise and bandwidth due to higher device p...

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  • Open Access
1,212 Views
23 Pages

Iterative Fast Super-Twisting Flux Sliding Mode Observer for SPMSM with Tangent Quadrature Phase-Locked Loop

  • Fujiong Zhao,
  • Yunxia Xie,
  • Jianfeng Mao,
  • Yingjie Xu,
  • Gaosheng Li,
  • Rongsheng Jia and
  • Weigang Wang

20 December 2024

Traditional low-order flux sliding mode observer (FSMO) and quadrature phase-locked loop (QPLL) structures generally encounter issues such as estimated signal chattering and inadequate dynamic performance. To overcome these challenges, this paper pro...

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  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,593 Views
18 Pages

8 May 2023

The moving average filter-based phase-locked loop (MAF-PLL) can obtain grid synchronization signals accurately under adverse grid conditions with a large amount of harmonics due to the high filtering capability of the MAF. However, MAF-PLL cannot ach...

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741 Views
22 Pages

23 September 2025

To address the challenges posed by harmonic distortion and DC offset in the power grid, this paper proposes a novel Phase-Locked Loop (PLL) architecture tailored for single-phase grid-connected systems. The design integrates an Enhanced Adaptive Seco...

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15 Citations
6,602 Views
13 Pages

A Miniaturized Quartz Crystal Microbalance (QCM) Measurement Instrument Based on a Phase-Locked Loop Circuit

  • Jong-Yoon Park,
  • Rocío L. Pérez,
  • Caitlan E. Ayala,
  • Stephanie R. Vaughan,
  • Isiah M. Warner and
  • Jin-Woo Choi

The quartz crystal microbalance (QCM) has been widely used in laboratory settings as an analytical tool for recognizing and discriminating biological and chemical molecules of interest. As a result, recent studies have shown there to be considerable...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,138 Views
20 Pages

19 December 2022

An adaptive digital phase-locked loop (DPLL) continually adjusts the noise bandwidth of the loop filter in global navigation satellite system (GNSS) receivers to track signals by measuring the signal-to-noise ratio and/or dynamic stress. Such DPLLs h...

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  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,426 Views
17 Pages

Grid-Connected Renewable Energy Sources: A New Approach for Phase-Locked Loop with DC-Offset Removal

  • Mohammad A. Bany Issa,
  • Zaid A. Al Muala and
  • Pastora M. Bello Bugallo

14 June 2023

Renewable Energy Sources (RES) are widely used worldwide due to their positive effect on the environment, being sustainable, low cost, and controllable. The power generated from RESs must be configured to interface and perfectly synchronize with the...

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,669 Views
14 Pages

Weak-Light Phase-Locking Time Delay Interferometry with Optical Frequency Combs

  • Mingyang Xu,
  • Hanzhong Wu,
  • Yurong Liang,
  • Dan Luo,
  • Panpan Wang,
  • Yujie Tan and
  • Chenggang Shao

28 September 2022

In the future space-borne gravitational wave (GW) detector, the optical transponder scheme, i.e., the phase-locking scheme, will be utilized so as to maintain the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). In this case, the whole constellation will share one commo...

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,760 Views
24 Pages

25 June 2023

Determining the loop noise bandwidth and the coherent integration time is essential and important for the design of a reliable digital phase-locked loop (DPLL) in global navigation satellite system (GNSS) receivers. In general, designers set such par...

  • Review
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,184 Views
20 Pages

18 July 2023

The dynamic monitoring, control, and protection of modern power systems in real time require time-stamped electrical measurements to accurately estimate the bus voltage phasors using the state estimation function under normal and abnormal conditions....

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,576 Views
24 Pages

When three-phase voltages are polluted with unbalance, DC offsets, or higher harmonics, it is a challenge to quickly detect their parameters such as phases, frequency, and amplitudes. This paper proposes a phase-locked loop (PLL) for the three-phase...

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7 Citations
2,744 Views
18 Pages

6 October 2022

In a distributed generation system, the all-pass-filter phase-locked loop (APF-PLL) is a commonly used method for grid synchronization. However, the coupling effect between APF-PLL and current control loop increases the risk of oscillation instabilit...

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3 Citations
3,088 Views
12 Pages

10 September 2024

This paper presents advancements in the performance of digital phase-locked loop (DPLL)s, with a special focus on addressing the issue of required gain calibration in the time-to-digital converter (TDC) within phase-domain DPLL structures. Phase-doma...

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364 Views
18 Pages

This paper presents an all-digital fractional-N phase-locked loop (ADPLL) operating in the 2.86–3.2 GHz range, optimized for IoT and high-frequency RF transceiver applications demanding stringent phase noise performance, fast settling time, and...

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2,251 Views
12 Pages

Particle-in-Cell Simulations on High-Efficiency Phase-Locking Millimeter-Wave Magnetrons with Unsynchronized High-Voltage Pulses

  • Minsheng Song,
  • Lin Meng,
  • Bin Wang,
  • Liangjie Bi,
  • Yu Qin,
  • Haixia Liu,
  • Liangpin Chen,
  • Yong Yin and
  • Hailong Li

18 August 2023

Phase locking is an essential choice for building a coherent array, and a system of phase-locked magnetrons is relatively compact and cheaper than other microwave sources. Previous theoretical and experimental studies on phase locking are conducted u...

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  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,481 Views
17 Pages

2 February 2023

This work proposes a structural enhancement and a new technique to design the loop filter (LF) of a third-order phase-locked loop (PLL) to enhance the PLL dynamic performance under abnormal grid conditions. The proposed PLL combines a moving average...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,299 Views
22 Pages

3 September 2025

In a phase-locked loop (PLL) synchronized inverter grid-connected system, its equivalent damping coefficient is nonlinearly coupled with the operation power angle. Therefore, under a large disturbance, the indefinite damping increases the risk of tra...

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  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,528 Views
12 Pages

13 September 2020

A 65–67 GHz phase-locked loop (PLL) with a novel low power phase-frequency detector (PFD) in 65 nm LP CMOS is presented. The PLL consists of a V-band voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO), a divide-by-two injection-locked frequency divider (ILFD)...

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7 Citations
2,662 Views
15 Pages

18 June 2024

To effectively detect motion sickness induced by virtual reality environments, we developed a classification model specifically designed for visually induced motion sickness, employing a phase-locked value (PLV) functional connectivity matrix and a C...

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  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,194 Views
15 Pages

14 October 2022

The stability and dynamic performance of the grid-connected converter is greatly affected by the coupling between the phase-locked loop (PLL) and the current loop control under weak grid conditions. The traditional control strategies use PLL to obtai...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
5,506 Views
24 Pages

Comparison of Phase-Locked Loops Used for Frequency Measurements in a Low-Inertia Power Grid with Wind Generation

  • Orlando David Guerrero-Bermúdez,
  • Sergio Martinez,
  • Eder Molina and
  • John E. Candelo-Becerra

8 October 2022

The need for more precise frequency measurements in electric power systems is increasing because of the growing penetration of renewable energy and the subsequent reduction in inertia, which gives rise to more intense frequency fluctuations. Phase-lo...

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  • Open Access
960 Views
19 Pages

21 October 2025

Aiming at the speed chattering problem caused by high-frequency square wave injection in permanent magnet synchronous motors (PMSMs) during low-speed operation (200–500 r/min), this study intends to improve the rotor position estimation accurac...

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  • Open Access
1,261 Views
20 Pages

18 May 2025

This paper proposes a sensorless field-oriented control (FOC) strategy for permanent magnet synchronous motors (PMSMs), focusing on rotor flux position estimation based on back-electromotive force (back-EMF) signals. The limitations of conventional p...

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  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,259 Views
21 Pages

6 March 2019

The inertia and damping of the modern power system are consistently decreased when wind energy has a high penetration level into the grid. This paper proposes a novel solution through transforming the wind turbine generator into an equivalent motion...

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1 Citations
3,398 Views
14 Pages

Simulation and Design of a PIC-Based Heterodyne Optical Phase Locked Loop

  • Xiu Yang,
  • Chanchan Luo,
  • Ben Zhang,
  • Bocang Qiu and
  • Ruiying Zhang

In this paper, we report on our simulation and design of a photonic integrated circuits (PIC)-based heterodyne optical phase-locked loop (OPLL). Our simulation reveals that the OPLL operation can be in one of three states, i.e., absolutely stable, me...

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506 Views
20 Pages

5 February 2026

Studying the dynamical behavior of micro- and nano-mechanical systems (MEMSs and NEMSs) is essential in various fields from nonlinear dynamics to quantum technologies. Hence, it is important to precisely monitor the mechanical properties of MEMS and...

  • Communication
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5 Citations
4,826 Views
12 Pages

10 January 2022

This paper realized a charge pump phase locked loop (CPPLL) frequency source circuit based on 0.15 μm Win GaAs pHEMT process. In this paper, an improved fully differential edge-triggered frequency discriminator (PFD) and an improved differential s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,602 Views
19 Pages

A Single-Phase Globally Stable Frequency-Locked Loop Based on the Second-Order Harmonic Oscillator Model

  • Gerardo Escobar,
  • Jonathan Carlos Mayo-Maldonado,
  • Dunstano del Puerto-Flores,
  • Jesus E. Valdez-Resendiz and
  • Osvaldo M. Micheloud

24 February 2021

This paper presents a novel frequency-locked-loop (FLL) scheme that provides estimates of the in-phase and square-phase fundamental components of a distorted single-phase reference signal and an estimate of its fundamental angular frequency. The main...

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2,750 Views
18 Pages

15 March 2025

This study presents a novel dual phase-locked loop two-dimensional synchronized motion modulation (TDSMM-DPLL) system designed to enhance the low-frequency detection capability of magnetoresistive (MR) sensors by effectively mitigating 1/f noise. The...

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