The year 2016 featured important advancements in all-mechanical resoswitch receiver technology, introducing soft impacting to enable AM reception while suppressing squegging and for the first time employing a resoswitch to realize an RF-powered micromechanical clock generator, winning a best paper award in the process. The journal paper on CVD diamond spoke-supported micromechanical ring resonators <\/p>\n\n\n\n
W.-C. Li, Z. Ren, and C. T.-C. Nguyen, \u201cA micromechanical high-Q<\/em> elliptic disk displacement amplifier<\/a>,\u201d Tech. Digest<\/em>, 2016 IEEE Int. Micro Electro Mechanical Systems Conference, Shanghai, China, Jan. 24-28, 2016, pp. 663-666.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
R. Liu, J. N. Nilchi, W.-C. Li, and C. T.-C. Nguyen, \u201cSoft-impacting micromechanical resoswitch zero-quiescent power AM receiver<\/a>,\u201d Tech. Digest<\/em>, 2016 IEEE Int. Micro Electro Mechanical Systems Conference, Shanghai, China, Jan. 24-28, 2016, pp. 51-54.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
T. L. Naing, T. O. Rocheleau, Z. Ren, S.-S. Li, and C. T.-C. Nguyen, \u201cHigh-Q<\/em> spoke-supported ring resonators<\/a>,\u201d IEEE\/ASME J. Microelectromech. Syst<\/em>., vol. 25, no. 1, pp. 11-29, Feb. 2016. (19 pages)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
R. Liu, J. N. Nilchi, and C. T.-C. Nguyen, \u201cRF-powered micromechanical clock generator<\/a>,\u201d Proceedings<\/em>, IEEE Int. Frequency Control Symp., New Orleans, Louisiana, May 9-12, 2016, pp. 73-78. (best paper award winner)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"