The work submitted for evaluation focuses on the characterisation and measurement of high speed analogue-to-digital converters for radio application and was developed at the Telecommunications Institute (IT) of Aveiro under the supervision of Nuno Borges de Carvalho, professor at the Department of Electronics, Telecommunications and Informatics of the UA and researcher at the IT-Aveiro. The student’s work was considered the most relevant among the proposals submitted to the competition held in December, in parallel with the ARFTG conference, in Atlanta, and, consequently, selected to be granted a scholarship.

From the point of view of Diogo Ribeiro, the award “recognises the work developed at the IT-Aveiro as having international excellence in the field of radio frequency. At national level, this award reaffirms IT-Aveiro’s leading position in the field of radio frequency instrumentation”.

"This work aims at trying to know and best characterise, through new measurement techniques, an component until then not much studied and understood in the field of radio frequency: high speed analogue-to-digital converters", explains the researcher. "These, most likely, will become very important components for future radios, due to the unstoppable increase in bandwidth (data transmission speed) required by users. The characterization and measurement of these devices will allow a quicker, better and cheaper development of these future radios", further anticipates Diogo Ribeiro.