Environmental Sensitivities of Quartz Oscillators

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 1992, Pages 241-249

  Walls, Fred L ^a   Gagnepain, Jean Jacques ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE FRANCHE COMTÉ   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY--EFFECTS; ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; QUARTZ--APPLICATIONS; VIBRATIONS--EFFECTS;

ENVIRONMENTAL SENSITIVITY; EXTERNAL LOAD EFFECTS; MODE SELECTION; QUARTZ OSCILLATORS; TUNED CIRCUITS;

OSCILLATORS;

EID: 0026835199     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/58.139120     Document Type: Article

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