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    • Electrical Engineering
    • Materials Science
    • Physics

    Background:

    • Micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) resonators offer miniaturization potential for electronic components.
    • Traditional quartz crystal oscillators face limitations in size and power consumption for mobile applications.
    • Achieving high-performance oscillators at the chip scale requires innovative circuit and resonator designs.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To develop a low-power, high-performance Pierce oscillator using a MEMS wine-glass disk resonator.
    • To demonstrate phase noise and power consumption suitable for mobile phone reference oscillator applications.
    • To investigate the impact of MEMS resonator characteristics on oscillator performance and power efficiency.

    Main Methods:

    • Construction of a 61-MHz Pierce oscillator in 0.35-µm CMOS technology.
    • Referencing the oscillator to a polysilicon surface-micromachined capacitive-gap-transduced wine-glass disk resonator.
    • Utilizing a MEMS-enabled input-to-output shunt capacitance significantly smaller than quartz crystals.
    • Analyzing circuit performance through linear circuit analysis and varying resonator bias voltage.

    Main Results:

    • Achieved phase noise of -119 dBc/Hz at 1-kHz offset and -139 dBc/Hz at far-from-carrier offsets.
    • Demonstrated power consumption of only 3.5 mW, a 4.5× reduction over previous work.
    • Obtained a 1-kHz-offset figure of merit (FOM) of -231 dB, the best reported for chip-scale oscillators.
    • Further power reduction to 1.9 mW achieved by increasing resonator bias voltage.

    Conclusions:

    • The developed MEMS oscillator meets the stringent phase noise requirements for mobile phone reference applications.
    • The novel Pierce circuit design effectively leverages MEMS resonator properties for low power and high performance.
    • This technology shows promise for enabling low-power, autonomous sensor networks and embedded radios.
    • Further optimization of MEMS transducer gaps and bond pad sizes can lead to even greater power reductions.