Frequency-selective MEMS for miniaturized low-power communication devices

CTC Nguyen - IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and …, 1999 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With Q's in the tens to hundreds of thousands, micromachined vibrating resonators are
proposed as integrated circuit-compatible tanks for use in the low phase-noise oscillators …

High-Q micromechanical oscillators and filters for communications

CTC Nguyen - 1997 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits …, 1997 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With Q's in the tens to hundreds of thousands, micromachined vibrating resonators are
proposed as IC-compatible tanks for use in the low phase noise oscillators and highly …

Vibrating RF MEMS for next generation wireless applications

CTC Nguyen - Proceedings of the IEEE 2004 Custom …, 2004 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Micromechanical RF filters and reference oscillators based on recently demonstrated
vibrating on-chip micromechanical resonators with Qs> 10,000 at 1.5 GHz, are described as …

MEMS technology for timing and frequency control

CTC Nguyen - IEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics …, 2007 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
An overview on the vise of microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) technologies for timing
and frequency control is presented. In particular, micromechanical RF filters and reference …

High-Q HF microelectromechanical filters

FD Bannon, JR Clark… - IEEE Journal of solid-state …, 2000 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
IC-compatible microelectromechanical intermediate frequency filters using integrated
resonators with Q's in the thousands to achieve filter Q's in the hundreds have been …

Transceiver front‐end architectures using vibrating micromechanical signal processors

CTC Nguyen - RF Technologies for Low Power Wireless …, 2001 - Wiley Online Library
This chapter focuses on communications subsystem performance enhancements potentially
attainable via use of vibrating micromechanical resonator circuits in MEMS‐based …

High-order medium frequency micromechanical electronic filters

K Wang, CTC Nguyen - Journal of Microelectromechanical …, 1999 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Third order, high-Q, micromechanical bandpass filters comprised of three ratioed folded-
beam resonators coupled by flexural mode springs are demonstrated using an integrated …

Series-resonant VHF micromechanical resonator reference oscillators

YW Lin, S Lee, SS Li, Y Xie, Z Ren… - IEEE Journal of Solid …, 2004 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Series-resonant vibrating micromechanical resonator oscillators are demonstrated using a
custom-designed single-stage zero-phase-shift sustaining amplifier together with planar …

Microelectromechanical resonators for radio frequency communication applications

J Basu, TK Bhattacharyya - Microsystem technologies, 2011 - Springer
Over the past few years, microelectromechanical system (MEMS) based on-chip resonators
have shown significant potential for sensing and high frequency signal processing …

Vibrating micromechanical resonators with solid dielectric capacitive transducer gaps

YW Lin, SS Li, Y Xie, Z Ren… - Proceedings of the 2005 …, 2005 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
VHF and UHF MEMS-based vibrating micromechanical resonators equipped with new solid
dielectric (ie, filled) capacitive transducer gaps to replace previously used air gaps have …