{"title":"Acoustic loss in cultured quartz","authors":"J.J. Martin","doi":"10.1109/FREQ.1996.559839","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/FREQ.1996.559839","url":null,"abstract":"The Q of a quartz resonator is limited by the resonator design, the mounting structure and electrodes, the surrounding atmosphere, and the quartz itself. The loss of all quartz resonators is limited by the interaction between the active vibration and the thermal phonon bath. This intrinsic loss limits the Q of 5 MHz overtone AT-cut crystals to about 3 million. Defects cause additional losses. Of these, substitutional aluminum with its charge compensating-ion is the most important. The Al-Li center which dominates in unswept cultured quartz does not contribute any loss. However, the Al-Na center which is present in quartz grown without the addition of lithium to the mineralizer causes a strong loss at 54 K in 5 MHz crystals. The Al-OH center which is present in swept quartz (and after irradiation) has a loss peak near 600 K. Low-temperature loss peaks are associated with the Al-hole center which is produced by irradiation or by vacuum electrolysis. The Al-Na loss in a BT-cut resonator is approximately one-fifth that of an equivalent AT-cut while SC-cuts are intermediate. The Al-Na is also observed in low-frequency bar resonators. These results suggest that the Al-Na defect couples to all modes. At high temperatures a strong rapidly-increasing thermally-activated loss is observed. This high temperature loss is primarily due to alkali ions that have thermally escaped from the Al-site. Other defect centers also cause loss in crystals. The OH-growth defects do not have an associated loss. However, there are alkali-compensated versions of these defects which have loss peaks just above room temperature. Sweeping converts the alkali versions into OH-growth defects and increases the mechanical Q.","PeriodicalId":140391,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of 1996 IEEE International Frequency Control Symposium","volume":"60 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-06-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127034479","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
R. Kojouharov, T. Nurgaliev, M. Taslakov, R.A. Chakalov, T. Donchev, A. Spasov, Z. Ivanov, I. Angelov, L. Johansson, E. Kollberg, T. Claeson
{"title":"High thermal stability microwave oscillator based on HTSC resonator","authors":"R. Kojouharov, T. Nurgaliev, M. Taslakov, R.A. Chakalov, T. Donchev, A. Spasov, Z. Ivanov, I. Angelov, L. Johansson, E. Kollberg, T. Claeson","doi":"10.1109/FREQ.1996.560253","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/FREQ.1996.560253","url":null,"abstract":"Recent developments in high temperature superconducting (HTSC) thin films have made possible the construction of microwave resonators with a very high Q values because of the significantly lower surface resistance than that of normal metals. In this paper microwave characteristics of microstrip resonators fabricated from YBa/sub 2/Cu/sub 3/O/sub 7-/spl delta// and Tl/sub 2/Ba/sub 2/CaCu/sub 2/O/sub 8/ thin films were studied and their application for stabilization of a microwave oscillator was shown. Two oscillators were fabricated and tested, one at 4 GHz with YBa/sub 2/Cu/sub 3/O/sub 7-/spl delta// meander-type resonator and a hybrid oscillator implemented on RT/Duroid substrate and Tl/sub 2/Ba/sub 2/CaCu/sub 2/O/sub 8/ linear microstrip resonator operated at 12 GHz. The designs were parallel feedback mode oscillators and transmission-type high-Q HTSC resonators were used as bandpass filters. A frequency instability of the hybrid oscillator with Tl/sub 2/Ba/sub 2/CaCu/sub 2/O/sub 8/ resonator of -0.16 ppm/K at 77 K was achieved which exceeds that possible with state-of-the-art DROs and SAWOs at 12 GHz.","PeriodicalId":140391,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of 1996 IEEE International Frequency Control Symposium","volume":"51 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-06-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121579941","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Lame-mode quartz crystal resonators","authors":"H. Kawashima, M. Matsuyama, K. Sunaga","doi":"10.1109/FREQ.1996.559890","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/FREQ.1996.559890","url":null,"abstract":"A quartz crystal resonator of Lame-mode is available for realization of a frequency over approximately 3 MHz because its frequency constant has a value of 360 kHz/spl middot/cm at a cut angle /spl phi/=36/spl deg/ and its frequency is dependent upon contour dimensions of the resonator. In this paper relationships of frequency constant (f/spl middot/2z/sub 0/), frequency temperature coefficients /spl alpha/, /spl beta/ and a capacitance ratio r versus cut angle /spl phi/, and also frequency temperature behavior are shown theoretically and experimentally. The calculated values agree well with the measured ones, and a quartz crystal resonator of Lame-mode is successfully obtained with a zero temperature coefficient at room temperature, a small series resistance R/sub 1/ and a small capacitance ratio r.","PeriodicalId":140391,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of 1996 IEEE International Frequency Control Symposium","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-06-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126001926","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reducing the normal acceleration sensitivity of surface transverse wave resonators using micromachined isolation systems","authors":"J. R. Reid, V. Bright, J. T. Stewart, J. Kosinski","doi":"10.1109/FREQ.1996.559896","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/FREQ.1996.559896","url":null,"abstract":"Micromachined silicon platforms provide two methods for reducing the acceleration sensitivity of surface transverse wave resonators, First, micromachining allows precise control over the structure of the silicon mounting platform and supports. The platform can thus be shaped to apply stresses to the resonator such that the minimum acceleration sensitivity is achieved. Second, a platform supported by flexibie arms acts as a vibration isolation system, thus reducing the effective acceleration applied to the resonator. A study of a silicon micromachined isolation platform has been performed. Numerical analysis has been used to determine the effect of stress on the resonator, while a mass spring model has been used to predict the effective acceleration applied to the resonator.","PeriodicalId":140391,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of 1996 IEEE International Frequency Control Symposium","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-06-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115794361","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Finite element analysis of single crystal tuning forks for gyroscopes","authors":"S. Kudo, S. Sugawara, N. Wakatuki","doi":"10.1109/FREQ.1996.559946","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/FREQ.1996.559946","url":null,"abstract":"The single crystal tuning fork gyroscopes are analyzed by using the finite element method. The vibrational displacements of the gyroscope are calculated. As the calculated results of an x-cut quartz crystal tuning fork, whose base length is equal to the arm length, it becomes clear as the following. (1) For the horizontal driving mode, the displacements at the bottom of the base are below 1/1000 times as compared with the maximum displacement at the arm end. (2) For the vertical detecting made, the displacements at the base bottom are almost equal to 1/10 times in comparison with the maximum value. The validity of calculated result is experimentally confirmed. Then, the experimental results of the sensitivity and the response characteristics of the crystal gyroscope are shown.","PeriodicalId":140391,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of 1996 IEEE International Frequency Control Symposium","volume":"1973 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-06-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130069392","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
E. Ferre-Pikal, F. Walls, J. Vig, J.F. Garcia Nava
{"title":"Experimental studies on flicker noise in quartz crystal resonators as a function of electrode volume, drive current, type of quartz, and fabrication process","authors":"E. Ferre-Pikal, F. Walls, J. Vig, J.F. Garcia Nava","doi":"10.1109/FREQ.1996.560264","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/FREQ.1996.560264","url":null,"abstract":"We investigated the effect of electrode size, drive current, sweeping, type of polishing, and ultra-thin electrodes on the 1/f or flicker frequency and phase modulation (PM) noise of quartz crystal resonators. The 1/f noise of resonators with three different electrode diameters was measured and compared. The PM noise performances of all three resonator types, measured in a test oscillator, were similar with an average of -100 dBc/Hz, a variation of approximately /spl plusmn/10 dB, and a minimum value of /spl Lscr/(10 Hz)=-110 dBc/Hz. (dBc/Hz refers to dB below the carrier in a 1 Hz bandwidth.) We also found that the 1/f noise in many of these resonators varied significantly (up to 10 dB) with drive current. We also had other groups of resonators made out of swept quartz bars, with a special polishing process and/or ultra-thin electrode edges. These groups yielded similar results: an average PM noise of -98 dBc/Hz, and a variation of /spl plusmn/10 dB. The amplitude-frequency effect of the resonators was also investigated. The frequency versus amplitude curve, measured using a network analyzer, showed discontinuities in some of the resonators with poor noise. There is some indication that these discontinuities or \"jumps\" may be due to stress relief in the crystal or noisy contacts.","PeriodicalId":140391,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of 1996 IEEE International Frequency Control Symposium","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-06-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133877465","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An MCXO for a man-portable satellite terminal","authors":"B. Rose, E. Jackson, L. Kushner","doi":"10.1109/FREQ.1996.559955","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/FREQ.1996.559955","url":null,"abstract":"A miniature low power oscillator has been developed to meet the frequency and timing requirements of a man-portable satellite terminal. Based on the existing Q-Tech MCXO (microprocessor controlled crystal oscillator), the QT2001, which has been extensively discussed in previous papers, provides a frequency-temperature accuracy of +/- 3E-8. Features added in this development effort include outputs at 200 MHz, 100 MHz, and 50 MHz, reduced output spectrum spurious frequency levels to -70 dBC @ 200 MHz, a real-time clock with RS232 interface, and a 5 mW time keeping 'Watch' mode.","PeriodicalId":140391,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of 1996 IEEE International Frequency Control Symposium","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-06-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133079332","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Lateral-field-excitation acoustic resonators for monolithic oscillators and filters","authors":"W. W. Lau, Yong-Joo Song, E. S. Kim","doi":"10.1109/FREQ.1996.559925","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/FREQ.1996.559925","url":null,"abstract":"This paper describes a high-frequency acoustic resonator built on a low-stress silicon nitride cantilever for monolithic filters and oscillators at above 1 GHz. The unique features of our resonator include (1) usage of lateral electric field (rather than thickness-direction field) to excite bulk acoustic wave in piezoelectric ZnO film and (2) usage of surface micromachining to fabricate the resonator on silicon wafer. Our resonator is measured to have a resonant frequency of 531 MHz with Q of 738 and figure-of-merit of 207.","PeriodicalId":140391,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of 1996 IEEE International Frequency Control Symposium","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-06-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128809940","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Precision crystal oscillator for interplanetary radio science","authors":"J. M. Cloeren, C. Hamilton","doi":"10.1109/FREQ.1996.560252","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/FREQ.1996.560252","url":null,"abstract":"This paper describes a 4.788194-MHz crystal oscillator developed for the radio science experiments aboard the Cassini spacecraft. The oscillator contains a bus voltage converter, stress-compensated resonator oscillator assembly, temperature controller, a single-stage oven, titanium vacuum flask, /spl times/24 frequency multiplier, magnetic shielding, three-axis vibration isolators, and two well-isolated buffer amplifiers. Power consumption is less than 2.8 W at +20/spl deg/C. The oscillator is housed in a 81-in/sup 3/ package and has a mass of 1.78 kg. The design of this oscillator originated with Peter G. Sulzer in the late 1960s and was later translated for space flight by Jerry R. Norton and James M. Cloeren at The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (JHU/APL). This work at JHU/APL has produced oscillators with outstanding performance for many spacecraft with widely diverse missions. Details of the Cassini radio science mission are presented to delineate the scientific needs that drove the design of the oscillator.","PeriodicalId":140391,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of 1996 IEEE International Frequency Control Symposium","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-06-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134456446","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Frequency control method for microwave oscillators using straightedge MSW resonators","authors":"T. Koike, T. Hirao, T. Ito, T. Nagano","doi":"10.1109/FREQ.1996.560255","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/FREQ.1996.560255","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper we discuss the effects of additional electrodes, fabricated near the center electrode of a magnetostatic wave (MSW) straightedge resonator, on the frequency shifts of the magnetostatic wave oscillator. Upon switching the p-i-n diodes on and off in the additional electrode circuits, the resonant frequency can be shifted without changing the external magnetic field and the circuit parameters of a feedback load circuit. We constructed oscillators using this technique and could observe shifts of oscillatory peaks as predicted by our equivalent circuit model. Some interesting features of the frequency shifts are also discussed.","PeriodicalId":140391,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of 1996 IEEE International Frequency Control Symposium","volume":"70 6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-06-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131842432","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}