HBAR-Based 3.6GHz Oscillator with Low Power Consumption and Low Phase Noise

Published

February 1, 2009

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.

Citation

Electron Device Letters

Volume

56

Issue

2

Pub Type

Journals

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Keywords

Allan deviation, CSAC, HBAR, oscillator, phase noise

Citation

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 2, 2025)