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Pierce oscillator

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Optimization of Edge Profile for Improved Anti-Resonance Quality Factor in Lithium Niobate SH0 Resonators

Luis Guillermo Villanueva Torrijo, Silvan Stettler

Thin-film lithium niobate (LNO) has been identified as a promising material platform for enabling high electromechanical coupling and low-loss piezoelectric resonators for filtering applications. In this work, the design and fabrication of fundamental shea ...

IEEE2022

Time-Delay Encoded Image Recognition in a Network of Resistively Coupled VO2 on Si Oscillators

Kirsten Emilie Moselund

Oscillatory neural networks based on insulator to metal transition of VO2 switches are implemented for image recognition. The VO2 oscillators are fabricated on silicon in a CMOS compatible process.A fullyconnected network of coupled oscillators is investig ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2020

Mechanical oscillator with tunable isochronism defect

Simon Nessim Henein, Mohammad Hussein Kahrobaiyan, Mohamed Gamal Abdelrahman Ahmed Zanaty

Mechanical oscillator (1) for a timepiece comprising an inertial mass (3) arranged to oscillate about a neutral position under the effect of a restoring force provided by at least one elastic element (5),characterised in that said mechanical oscillator (1) ...

2020

Phase Noise Measurements Of Aluminum Scandium Nitride Oscillators

Luis Guillermo Villanueva Torrijo, Andrea Lozzi, Marco Liffredo

This paper presents the first phase noise (PN) measurements of oscillators based on aluminum scandium nitride (AlScN) resonators. 2-port AlScN contour mode resonators (CMR) operating at 195 MHz arc fabricated. A large pool of Q values (ranging from 150 to ...

IEEE2019

A 32kHz crystal oscillator leveraging voltage scaling in an ultra-low power 40nA real-time clock

Maher Kayal, Luca Rossi, François Krummenacher, Mathieu Yves Hervé Coustans

In this paper, an ultra-low power consumption crystal oscillator embedded in an RTC module (ASIC and its crystal resonator) is presented. The technique leverages oscillation amplitude and loads capacitance scaling; it incorporates transistor level merging ...

IEEE2018

Negative capacitance tunnel F£Ts: Experimental demonstration of outstanding simultaneous boosting of on-current, transconductance, overdrive, and swing

Mihai Adrian Ionescu, Farzan Jazaeri, Igor Stolichnov, Ali Saeidi

This paper demonstrates and experimentally reports the highest ever performance boosting in strained silicon-nanowire homojunction TFETs with negative capacitance, provided by matched PZT capacitors. Outstanding enhancements of I on , g m , and overdrive a ...

IEEE2018

A 400 fJ Per-Cycle Frequency Reference for Internet of Things

Maher Kayal, François Krummenacher, Mathieu Yves Hervé Coustans

This work presents an ultra-low power oscillator designed to target different contexts, such as crystal-assisted time keeping, reference oscillator to optimize the always on domain of a microcontroller or wake-up timer. This oscillator enables ultra-low po ...

2016

A nA Crystal - Less Oscillator for Internet of Things

Maher Kayal, François Krummenacher, Mathieu Yves Hervé Coustans

Ieee2016

Reliability Aspects of Microelectromechanical Systems for Space Applications : Mechanical Properties of Structural Materials and Analysis of Packaging Strains

Tobias Bandi

Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) are an essential ingredient in many technological innovations and a source of game-changing inventions in the automotive industry, space exploration, consumer electronics and medical applications due to its capability ...

EPFL2014

Electrical modeling and design of a wafer-level package for MEM resonators

Mihai Adrian Ionescu, Anja Skrivervik, Julien Perruisseau-Carrier, Marco Mazza

This paper presents the electrical design and characterization of a wafer-level, or 0-level, package for micro-electromechanical resonators. We start by identifying the requirements on the electrical parasitics of a packaged resonator, derived from an anal ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2010

Bulk-source-coupled CMOS Quadrature Oscillators

Pierre-André Farine, Cyril Botteron, Uroschanit Yodprasit

A quadrature oscillator based on a coupling between the bulk and the source of MOS transistors is proposed. Since the resonator load is not directly involved in the coupling process, the oscillation frequency is very close to the resonant frequency, hence ...

Institution of Engineering and Technology2009

Nanogap MEM resonators on SOI

Nicoleta-Diana Ciressan

Today's consumer electronics based on a large variety of time-keeping and frequency reference applications is based on quartz-crystal oscillators, because of their excellent performances in terms of quality factor, thermal and frequency stability. However, ...

EPFL2009