Acoustic Bragg Reflectors for Q-Enhancement of Unreleased MEMS Resonators
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Wang, Wentao; Weinstein, Dana
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This work presents the design of acoustic Bragg reflectors (ABRs) for unreleased MEMS resonators through analysis and simulation. Two of the greatest challenges to the successful implementation of MEMS are those of packaging and integration with integrated circuits. Development of unreleased RF MEMS resonators at the transistor level of the CMOS stack will enable direct integration into front-end-of-line (FEOL) processing, making these devices an attractive choice for on-chip signal generation and signal processing. The use of ABRs in unreleased resonators reduces spurious modes while maintaining high quality factors. Analysis on unreleased resonators using ABRs covers design principles, effects of fabrication variation, and comparison to released devices. Additionally, ABR-based unreleased resonators are compared with unreleased resonators enhanced using phononic crystals, showing order of magnitude higher quality factor (Q) for the ABR-based devices.
Date issued
2011-05Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science; Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mechanical Engineering; Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Microsystems Technology LaboratoriesJournal
Proceedings of the 2011 Joint Conference of the IEEE International Frequency Control Symposium & European Frequency and Time Forum
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Citation
Wang, Wentao, and Dana Weinstein. “Acoustic Bragg Reflectors for Q-enhancement of Unreleased MEMS Resonators.” in Proceedings of the 2011 Joint Conference of the IEEE International Frequency Control and the European Frequency and Time Forum, IEEE, 2011. 1–6. Web.
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INSPEC Accession Number: 12178210
ISBN
978-1-61284-111-3
ISSN
1075-6787
1932-2380