Recent Progress in Silicon MEMS Oscillators

Wan-Thai Hsu

Abstract:	This paper first reviews key milestones in the making of silicon MEMS oscillators and how MEMS resonators can be used as frequency references for electronic systems, starting from silicon resonators device designs with different fabrication processes, to wafer level packaging technologies, to the robustness of volume manufacturing processes. Secondly, as final products, various MEMS oscillators from various companies are compared with quartz crystal oscillators in terms of jitter, power consumption, and temperature stability. Finally, to ensure the performance is good for real electronics applications, silicon MEMS oscillators not only have passed standard JEDEC reliability tests such as aging, solder reflow, thermal shock, and autoclave, but also have been demonstrated in several electronic systems.
Published in:	Proceedings of the 40th Annual Precise Time and Time Interval Systems and Applications Meeting December 1 - 4, 2008 Hyatt Regency Reston Town Center Reston, Virginia
Pages:	135 - 146
Cite this article:	Hsu, Wan-Thai, "Recent Progress in Silicon MEMS Oscillators," Proceedings of the 40th Annual Precise Time and Time Interval Systems and Applications Meeting, Reston, Virginia, December 2008, pp. 135-146.
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