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HBAR-Based 3.6GHz Oscillator with Low Power Consumption and Low Phase Noise
Published
Author(s)
Hongyu Yu, Chuang-yuan Lee, Wei Pang, Hao Zhang, Alan Brannon, John E. Kitching, Eun Sok Kim
Abstract
We have designed and built two oscillators, based on High-overtone Bulk Acoustic Resonators (HBAR) for application in Chip-Scale Atomic Clocks (CSAC). The measured phase noise of the 3.6-GHz oscillator is -67 dBc/Hz at 300 Hz offset and ?102 dBc/Hz at 10 kHz offset. The Allan deviation of the free-running oscillator is 1.5x10-9 at one second integration time and the power consumption is 3.2 mW. The low phase noise allows to the LO to be locked to a CSAC physics package without significantly limiting degradation of the clock performance.
Yu, H.
, Lee, C.
, Pang, W.
, Zhang, H.
, Brannon, A.
, Kitching, J.
and , E.
(2009),
HBAR-Based 3.6GHz Oscillator with Low Power Consumption and Low Phase Noise, Electron Device Letters, [online], https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=50648
(Accessed October 3, 2025)