HBAR-Based 3.6 GHz oscillator with low power consumption and low phase noise

Hongyu Yu, Chuang Yuan Lee, Wei Pang, Hao Zhang, Alan Brannon, John Kitching, Eun Sok Kim

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Abstract

We have designed and built 2 oscillators at 1.2 and 3.6 GHz based on high-overtone bulk acoustic resonators (HBARs) for application in chip-scale atomic clocks (CSACs). The measured phase noise of the 3.6 GHz oscillator is -67 dBc/Hz at 300 Hz offset and -100 dBc/Hz at 10 kHz offset. The Allan deviation of the free-running oscillator is 1.5 ° - 10 -9 at one second integration time and the power consumption is 3.2 mW. The low phase noise allows the oscillator to be locked to a CSAC physics package without significantly degrading the clock performance.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Article number4787193
Pages (from-to)400-403
Number of pages4
JournalIEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control
Volume56
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - Feb 2009

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Instrumentation
  • Acoustics and Ultrasonics
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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