MEMS for wireless communications:'from RF-MEMS components to RF-MEMS-SiP'

HAC Tilmans, W De Raedt… - Journal of Micromechanics …, 2003 - iopscience.iop.org
Wireless communication has led to an explosive growth of emerging consumer and military
applications of radio frequency (RF), microwave and millimeter wave circuits and systems …

MEMS resonators for frequency reference and timing applications

G Wu, J Xu, EJ Ng, W Chen - Journal of …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
An overview of microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) resonators for frequency reference
and timing applications is presented. The progress made in the past few decades in design …

Fully-differential poly-SiC Lame mode resonator and checkerboard filter

SA Bhave, D Gao, R Maboudian… - 18th IEEE International …, 2005 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we report the first fully-differential, electrostatically transduced RF MEMS
resonator. The fully-differential electrode configuration not only cancels capacitive …

High-Q bulk-mode SOI square resonators with straight-beam anchors

L Khine, M Palaniapan - Journal of Micromechanics and …, 2008 - iopscience.iop.org
In this paper, the performance of 6.35 MHz Lamé-mode square resonators with different
dimensions of straight-beam anchor supports is presented, with quality factor values …

6MHz bulk-mode resonator with Q values exceeding one million

L Khine, M Palaniapan… - … 2007-2007 International …, 2007 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we report a 6.3 MHz Lamé-mode square resonator with fully differential drive
and sense electronics, exhibiting quality factor, Q values exceeding 1 million in ambient …

A digitally programmable CMOS feedback ASIC for highly stable MEMS-referenced oscillators

MS Islam, SK Singh, G Xereas… - … on Circuits and …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper describes a digitally programmable single-chip feedback ASIC for MEMS-
referenced oscillators in the 0.4-15-MHz range. The chip contains a differential-difference …

VHF CMOS-MEMS oxide resonators with Q> 10,000

WC Chen, W Fang, SS Li - 2012 IEEE International Frequency …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A fully differential CMOS-MEMS oxide resonator fabricated using 0.18 μm CMOS-MEMS
platform via metal wet-etching post process has been demonstrated with Q>; 10,000, first …

System-level circuit simulation of nonlinearity in micromechanical resonators

H Zhu, JEY Lee - Sensors and Actuators A: Physical, 2012 - Elsevier
We here present an equivalent circuit model capable of capturing the effects of nonlinearity
in micromechanical resonators, particularly those driven and sensed by capacitive …

Fully differential internal electrostatic transduction of a Lamé-mode resonator

M Ziaei-Moayyed, D Elata, J Hsieh… - 2009 IEEE 22nd …, 2009 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper reports the parallel internal electrostatic transduction of a laterally driven Lame-
mode polysilicon resonator. This resonator is fabricated using a manufacturable double …

Differential internal dielectric transduction of a Lamé-mode resonator

M Ziaei-Moayyed, D Elata, EP Quévy… - … of Micromechanics and …, 2010 - iopscience.iop.org
This paper reports the parallel internal electrostatic transduction of a laterally driven Lamé-
mode polysilicon resonator. The transducer is fabricated using a manufacturable double …