Dissipation analysis methods and Q-enhancement strategies in piezoelectric MEMS laterally vibrating resonators: A review

C Tu, JEY Lee, XS Zhang - Sensors, 2020 - mdpi.com
Over the last two decades, piezoelectric resonant sensors based on micro-
electromechanical systems (MEMS) technologies have been extensively studied as such …

Micromachined piezoelectric Lamb wave resonators: a review

X Lu, H Ren - Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
With the development of next-generation wireless communication and sensing technologies,
there is an increasing demand for high-performance and miniaturized resonators …

VHF-band biconvex AlN-on-silicon micromechanical resonators with enhanced quality factor and suppressed spurious modes

C Tu, JEY Lee - Journal of Micromechanics and …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
This paper reports experimental results demonstrating the use of biconvex-edge designs to
enhance the quality factor (Q) in aluminum nitride (AlN)-on-silicon micromechanical …

Enhancing quality factor by etch holes in piezoelectric-on-silicon lateral mode resonators

C Tu, JEY Lee - Sensors and Actuators A: Physical, 2017 - Elsevier
We report a unique method of using etch-holes to greatly improve the unloaded quality
factor (Q u) of VHF-band low impedance laterally vibrating AlN Thin-film Piezoelectric-on …

Effect of mode order, resonator length, curvature, and electrode coverage on enhancing the performance of biconvex resonators

MWU Siddiqi, C Tu, JEY Lee - Journal of Micromechanics and …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Previous work has demonstrated the effectiveness of the biconvex approach in enhancing
the quality factor of piezoelectric resonators. This paper explores biconvex resonators in …

Very-low phase noise RF-MEMS reference oscillator using AlN-on-Si resonators achieved by accurate co-simulation

J Stegner, U Stehr, C Tu, JEY Lee… - 2017 IEEE MTT-S …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Reference oscillators are crucial hardware components of radio-frequency receiver circuits,
as their performance directly affects the system performance. Especially in GHz applications …

An A0 mode Lamb-wave AlN resonator on SOI substrate with vertically arranged double-electrodes

H Cao, X Lu, H Ren - Journal of Micromechanics and …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
In this paper, a novel vertically arranged double-electrodes A 0 mode Lamb-wave AlN
resonator on SOI substrate with a high electromechanical coupling coefficient and high …

Applying laser Doppler vibrometry to probe anchor losses in MEMS AlN-on-Si contour mode resonators

C Tu, A Frank, S Michael, J Stegner, U Stehr… - Sensors and Actuators A …, 2017 - Elsevier
This paper reports the application of high frequency laser Doppler vibrometry to observe the
surface profile of waves at the boundaries of contour mode aluminum nitride (AlN) on silicon …

Investigation on Quasi-Lamb Wave Modes in AlN-on-Si MEMS Resonators

C Tu, L Qiao, L Li, Y Chen… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Aluminum nitride (AlN)-on-Si MEMS resonators operating in Lamb wave modes have found
wide applications for physical sensing and frequency generation. Due to the inherent …

Triple-order optimization for performance enhancement of piezoelectric MEMS resonator

X Zhou, J Bao, F Bao, Y Song… - 2019 Joint Conference of …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Quality factor (Q) is an extremely important parameter for the practical applications of micro-
electromechanical systems (MEMS) resonators. Single optimization is difficult to achieve the …