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Must
Read Papers:
1.51-GHz with Q
>10,000 Even in Air!
A result of
purposely impedance-mismatching a polydiamond disk with its polysilicon stem.
1.2-GHz with Q = 14,600!
Who says diamond is needed to get Q
>10,000 at GHz frequencies? With the right "hollow-disk" ring
design, polysilicon can do even better than diamond.
60-MHz Wine-Glass Disk Oscillator Makes
the GSM Reference Oscillator Spec!
Higher power
handling and a Q >50,000 crucial in making the spec.
Arraying for Impedance <480W at 72MHz!
Mechanically
coupled resonator arrays automatically align resonator frequencies to allow
output summation for low impedance and higher power handling.
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their rapid publication cycles, conference papers perhaps provide the most
up-to-date information on our latest research results. Click
on the links at the left to access conference publications by year.
[Clicking through all of the links at the left in sequence gives an
interesting chronicle of progress in vibrating RF MEMS research, from
its beginnings, to its present state.]
Or click on the links below for the overview
papers over the years on vibrating RF MEMS and more. |
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The
Latest Award
Winning Papers:
Solid-Gap Vibrating
Micromechanical Resonator Wins
Best Paper Award at the 2005 IEEE Int. Frequency Control Symposium!
Congratulations
to Yu-Wei Lin for winning the Best Frequency Control Paper Award at the 2005
IEEE Int. Frequency Control Symposium.
Chip-Scale Atomic
Clock Overview Paper Wins the Jack Raper Award at the
2005 IEEE Int. Solid-State Circuits Conference!
Congratulations
to all those in the CSAC program (which Prof. Nguyen ran while at DARPA),
especially John Kitching from NIST, who co-authored this paper.
Vibrating RF MEMS Wins
Best Invited Paper Award at the 2004 IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits
Conference!
Read this for an
overview on vibrating RF MEMS.
Resonator Array
Oscillator Wins 2004 UFFC
Symposium Best Frequency Control Paper Award!
Congratulations
to Seungbae Lee for winning the Best Frequency Control Paper Award at the 2004
IEEE Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control 50th Anniv. Joint
Conf.
Ext. Wine-Glass
Resonator Work Wins 2003 IEDM Best Paper Award!
Congratulations
to Yuan Xie for winning the 2003 Int. Electron Devices Meeting Roger A. Haken
Best Student Paper Award.
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Latest
Vibrating RF MEMS Overview Paper (2005)
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Invited
Conference Overview Publications:
(Note that the following are
invited overview papers, not regular papers. Click on the links at the
upper left for regular papers containing more detail on specific topics.)
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Invited
Overview
Conference Publications: |
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C.
T.-C. Nguyen, MEMS
for frequency control and timing (invited plenary), Proceedings,
Joint IEEE Int. Frequency Control/Precision Time & Time Interval
Symposium, Vancouver, Canada, Aug.
29-31, 2005, pp. 1-11.
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C.
T.-C. Nguyen, RF
MEMS in wireless architectures (invited), Proceedings,
the 42nd Design Automation Conference, Anaheim,
California, June 13-17, 2005, pp. 416-420.
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C.
T.-C. Nguyen, Vibrating
RF MEMS technology: fuel for an integrated micromechanical circuit
revolution? (invited), Dig. of Tech. Papers,
the 13th
Int. Conf. on Solid-State Sensors & Actuators (Transducers05),
Seoul, Korea, June 5-9, 2005, pp. 243-246.
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C.
T.-C. Nguyen and J. Kitching, Towards
chip-scale atomic clocks (invited), Digest of Technical Papers,
2005 IEEE Int. Solid-State Circuits Conference,
San Francisco, California,
Feb. 6-9, 2005, pp. 84-85. (best paper award winner)
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C.
T.-C. Nguyen, Vibrating
RF MEMS overview: applications to wireless communications (invited
plenary), Proceedings,
Photonics West: MOEMS-MEMS 2005,
San Jose, California, Jan. 22-27, 2005, Paper
No. 5715-201.
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C.
T.-C. Nguyen, Vibrating
RF MEMS for next generation wireless applications (invited), Proceedings,
2004 IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conf., Orlando, Florida, Oct.
3-6, 2004, pp. 257-264. (best paper award winner)
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C.
T.-C. Nguyen, MEMS
technologies for communications (invited keynote), Tech. Proceedings,
2003 Nanotechnology Conference and Trade Show, San Francisco,
California, February 23-27, 2003, pp. 452-455.
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M.
A. Abdelmoneum, M. U. Demirci, and C. T.-C. Nguyen, Stemless
wine-glass-mode disk micromechanical resonators, Proceedings,
16th Int. IEEE Micro Electro Mechanical Systems Conf., Kyoto, Japan,
Jan. 19.-23, 2003, pp. 698-701.
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C.
T.-C. Nguyen, Vibrating
RF MEMS for low power communications (invited), Proceedings,
2002 MRS Fall Meeting, Boston, Massachusetts
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Dec. 2-6, 2002, pp. J12.1.1-J12.1.12.
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C.
T.-C. Nguyen, RF
MEMS for wireless applications (invited keynote),
Conf. Digest, 2002 Device Research Conference, Santa Barbara,
California, June 24-26, 2002, pp. 9-12.
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C.
T.-C. Nguyen, RF
MEMS for Low-Power Communications, Extended Abstracts,
2001 Int. Conf. on Solid-State Devices and Materials (SSDM01),
Tokyo,
Japan, Sept.
26-28, 2001, pp. 462-463.
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C.
T.-C. Nguyen, Transceiver
front-end architectures using vibrating micromechanical signal
processors (invited), Dig. of Papers,
Topical Meeting on Silicon Monolithic Integrated Circuits in RF
Systems,
Sept. 12-14, 2001, pp. 23-32.
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C.
T.-C. Nguyen, Vibrating
RF MEMS for low power wireless communications (invited keynote), Proceedings,
2000 Int. MEMS Workshop (iMEMS01), Singapore, July 4-6, 2001, pp. 21-34.
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C.
T.-C. Nguyen, Micromechanical
circuits for communication transceivers (invited), Proceedings, 2000 Bipolar/BiCMOS Circuits and Technology Meeting (BCTM),
Minneapolis, Minnesota, September 25-26, 2000, pp. 142-149.
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C.
T.-C. Nguyen, Micromechanical
circuits for wireless communications (invited plenary), Proceedings,
2000 European Solid-State Device Research Conference, Cork, Ireland,
September 11-13, 2000, pp. 2-12.
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C.
T.-C. Nguyen, Transceiver
front-end architectures using high-Q
micromechanical resonators (invited), Proceedings,
IEEE European MIDAS Workshop, University of Surrey, United Kingdom, July 17-18, 2000.
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C.
T.-C. Nguyen, Communication
architectures based on high-Q
MEMS devices (invited), Workshop Notes, Workshop
on Microwave and Photonic Applications of MEMS at the 2000 IEEE MTT-S
International Microwave Symposium, Anaheim, California, June 16,
2000.
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C.
T.-C. Nguyen, Micromechanical
circuits for communications (invited), Proceedings,
2000 Int. Conference on High Density Interconnect and Systems
Packaging, Denver, Colorado, April 25-28, 2000, pp. 112-117.
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C.
T.-C. Nguyen, Micromechanical
components for miniaturized low-power communications (invited), Proceedings, 1999 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium RF
MEMS Workshop (on
Microelectromechanical Devices for RF Systems: Their Construction,
Reliability, and Application), Anaheim,
California,
June 18, 1999, pp. 48-77.
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C.
T.-C. Nguyen, Micromechanical
filters for miniaturized
low-power communications (invited), Proceedings
of SPIE: Smart Structures and Materials (Smart Electronics and
MEMS), Newport Beach, California,
March 1-5, 1999, pp. 55-66.
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C.
T.-C. Nguyen, A.-C. Wong, and H. Ding, Tunable,
switchable, high-Q
VHF microelectromechanical bandpass filters (invited),
Digest of Technical Papers, 1999
IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference, San Francisco,
California, Feb. 15-17, 1999, pp. 78-79, 448.
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C.
T.-C. Nguyen, Micromachining
technologies for miniaturized communication devices (invited
plenary),
Proceedings of SPIE: Micromachining and Microfabrication, Santa
Clara, California, Sept.
20-22, 1998, pp. 24-38.
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C.
T.-C. Nguyen, Communications
applications of microelectromechanical
systems (invited), Proceedings,
1998 Sensors Expo, San Jose, California, May 20, 1998, pp. 447-455.
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C.
T.-C. Nguyen, Frequency-selective
MEMS for
miniaturized communication
devices (invited),
Proceedings, 1998 IEEE Aerospace
Conference, vol. 1, Snowmass, Colorado, March 21-28, 1998, pp.
445-460.
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C.
T.-C. Nguyen, Micromechanical
devices for
wireless communications
(invited plenary),
Proceedings, 1998 IEEE International
Workshop on Micro Electro Mechanical Systems, Heidelberg, Germany, Jan.
25-29, 1998,
pp. 1-7.
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C.
T.-C. Nguyen, High-Q
micromechanical oscillators
and filters for communications (invited),
Proceedings, 1997 IEEE International
Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Hong Kong, June
9-12, 1997, pp. 2825-2828.
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C.
T.-C. Nguyen, Micromechanical
resonators for oscillators and filters (invited), Proceedings, 1995 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium,
Seattle, WA, Nov.
7-10, 1995, pp. 489-499.
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