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A single-crystal-silicon bulk-acoustic-mode microresonator oscillator

Lee et al., 2008

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18104009202666226677
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Lee J
Bahreyni B
Zhu Y
Seshia A
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IEEE Electron Device Letters

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A timing reference incorporating a single-crystal-silicon micromechanical resonator with a quality factor of larger than one million and a resonant frequency of 2.18 MHz is demonstrated. The resonator is excited in the square extensional bulk acoustic mode at 4 …
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