The year 2013 was a very productive year, yielding three best paper awards: one for the first silicon nitride optomechanical oscillator, a second for the first micromechanical resoswitch-based on-chip charge pump, and a third for a wine-glass disk resonator Pierce oscillator with a best in class phase noise figure of merit. Another resoswitch power amplifier also emerged that also performed a filtering function. Perhaps one of the most ground-breaking disseminations this year was the exposition of the role extremely high Q<\/em> micromechanical resonators and filters could play in enabling spectrum sensing software-defined cognitive radio–a concept that continues to drive research towards single-chip integration of MEMS directly over transistors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
T.-T. Yen, A. P. Pisano, and C. T.-C. Nguyen, \u201cHigh-Q<\/em> capacitive-piezoelectric AlN lamb wave resonators<\/a>,\u201d Tech. Digest<\/em>, 2012 IEEE Int. Micro Electro Mechanical Systems Conference, Taipei, Taiwan, Jan. 20-24, 2013, pp. 114-117.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
T. O. Rocheleau, A. J. Grine, K.E. Grutter, R. A. Schneider, N. Quack, M. C. Wu, and C. T.-C. Nguyen, \u201cEnhancement of mechanical Q<\/em> for low phase noise optomechanical oscillators<\/a>,\u201d Tech. Digest<\/em>, 2012 IEEE Int. Micro Electro Mechanical Systems Conference, Taipei, Taiwan, Jan. 20-24, 2013, pp. 118-121. (best paper award winner)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
C. T.-C. Nguyen, “MEMS-based RF channel-selection for true software-defined cognitive radio and low power sensor communications<\/a>,” IEEE Commun. Mag., <\/em>pp. 110-119, April 2013.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A. Grine, K. E. Grutter, T. Rocheleau, N. Quack, T. Beyazoglu, Z. Zheng, I. Jutla, M. C. Wu, C. T.-C. Nguyen, \u201cPhase noise spectrum and carrier power modeling of high performance optomechanical resonators<\/a>,\u201d Proceedings<\/em>, 2013 Conf. on Lasers and Electro Optics, (CLEO): QELS Fundamental Science, San Jose, California, June 9, 2013, pp. QTh4E.2.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
C. T.-C. Nguyen, \u201cRF MEMS for channelizing low-power radios<\/a>,\u201d Proceedings<\/em> of the 17th<\/sup> Int. Conf. on Solid-State Sensors, Actuators, & Microsystems (Transducers\u201913), Barcelona, Spain, June 16-20, 2013, pp. 2455-2460.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
W.-C. Li, Y. Lin, and C. T.-C. Nguyen, \u201cMetal Micromechanical filter-power amplifier utilizing a displacement-amplifying resonant switch<\/a>,\u201d Proceedings<\/em> of the 17th<\/sup> Int. Conf. on Solid-State Sensors, Actuators, & Microsystems (Transducers\u201913), Barcelona, Spain, June 16-20, 2013, pp. 2469-2472.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Y. Lin, R. Liu, W.-C. Li, M. Akgul, and C. T.-C. Nguyen, \u201cA micromechanical resonant charge pump<\/a>,\u201d Proceedings<\/em> of the 17th<\/sup> Int. Conf. on Solid-State Sensors, Actuators, & Microsystems (Transducers\u201913), Barcelona, Spain, June 16-20, 2013, pp. 1727-1730. (best paper award winner)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
T. O. Rocheleau, T. L. Naing, and C. T.-C. Nguyen, \u201cLong-term stability of a MEMS disk oscillator<\/a>,\u201d Proceedings<\/em>, IEEE Int. Ultrason., Ferroelect., Freq. Contr. Joint Symp., Prague, Czech Republic, July 21-25, 2013, pp. 209-212.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
T. L. Naing, T. O. Rocheleau, E. Alon, and C. T.-C. Nguyen, \u201cA 78-uW GSM phase noise-compliant Pierce oscillator referenced to a 61-MHz wine-glass disk resonator<\/a>,\u201d Proceedings<\/em>, IEEE Int. Ultrason., Ferroelect., Freq. Contr. Joint Symp., Prague, Czech Republic, July 21-25, 2013, pp. 562-565. (best paper award winner)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
L. Wu, M. Akgul, Z. Ren, and C. T.-C. Nguyen, \u201cMicromechanical disk array-composite for enhanced frequency stability against bias voltage fluctuations<\/a>,\u201d Proceedings<\/em>, IEEE Int. Ultrason., Ferroelect., Freq. Contr. Joint Symp., Prague, Czech Republic, July 21-25, 2013, pp. 547-550.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"