A Single-Crystal-Silicon Bulk-Acoustic-Mode Microresonator Oscillator

Lee, Joshua E-Y; Bahreyni, Behraad; Zhu, Yong; Seshia, Ashwin A

doi:10.1109/LED.2008.2000643

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Lee, Joshua E-Y

Bahreyni, Behraad

Zhu, Yong

Seshia, Ashwin A

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Zhu, Yong

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2008

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Abstract

A timing reference incorporating a single-crystalsilicon micromechanical resonator with a quality factor of larger than one million and a resonant frequency of 2.18 MHz is demonstrated. The resonator is excited in the square extensional bulk acoustic mode at 4 mtorr, and it has been fabricated in a foundry SOI MEMS process. The silicon microresonator is adapted as a timing element for a precision oscillator with a measured shortterm Allan deviation of 0.6 ppb.A timing reference incorporating a single-crystalsilicon micromechanical resonator with a quality factor of larger than one million and a resonant frequency of 2.18 MHz is demonstrated. The resonator is excited in the square extensional bulk acoustic mode at 4 mtorr, and it has been fabricated in a foundry SOI MEMS process. The silicon microresonator is adapted as a timing element for a precision oscillator with a measured shortterm Allan deviation of 0.6 ppb.
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IEEE Electron Device Letters

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https://doi.org/10.1109/LED.2008.2000643

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Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS)

Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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http://hdl.handle.net/10072/40443

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