Intrinsic temperature compensation of aluminum nitride Lamb wave resonators for multiple-frequency references
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- 1 May 2008
- conference paper
- Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
- No. 23271914,p. 240-249
Abstract
In this paper we present the temperature compensation of aluminum nitride (AlN) Lamb wave resonators for a future application to XOs and TCXOs for a frequency ranging from 100 MHz to 1000 MHz. The temperature coefficient of frequency (TCF) for the lowest symmetric Lamb wave mode S0 for AlN plates with h/lambda0-mode propagating in thin AlN plates reduces not only the fabrication tolerances towards thickness variations of the AlN layer, but also enables resonators operating over a wide frequency range, i.e. from 100 MHz to 1000 MHz, based on two absolute film thicknesses for AlN and SiO2 achieving near zero TCF over the entire frequency range. The acoustic properties and different layer configurations of zero TCF Lamb wave devices are discussed in detail.Keywords
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