A negative-capacitance equivalent circuit model for parallel-plate capacitive-gap-transduced micromechanical resonators

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 61, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 849-869

  Akgul, Mehmet ^a   Wu, Lingqi ^a   Ren, Zeying ^a   Nguyen, Clark T C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPACITANCE; CIRCUIT SIMULATION; CIRCUIT THEORY; ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS; ELECTRIC POWER SYSTEMS; ELECTROSTATIC ACTUATORS; HETEROJUNCTION BIPOLAR TRANSISTORS; INTEGRATED CIRCUIT MANUFACTURE; MICROMECHANICAL RESONATORS; OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC); RESONATORS; STIFFNESS; TIMING CIRCUITS; TOPOLOGY;

ENVIRONMENTAL PERTURBATIONS; EQUIVALENT CIRCUIT MODEL; MICROMECHANICAL DEVICE; MICROMECHANICAL DISK RESONATORS; NEGATIVE CAPACITANCE; POWER SUPPLY VARIATIONS; RESONANCE FREQUENCIES; SMALL SIGNAL EQUIVALENT CIRCUIT;

EQUIVALENT CIRCUITS;

EID: 84900390470     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2014.2976     Document Type: Article

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