Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Active resonator system with tunable quality factor, frequency, and impedance
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Application No.: US16209442Application Date: 2018-12-04
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Publication No.: US10530337B2Publication Date: 2020-01-07
- Inventor: Clark T.-C. Nguyen , Thura Lin Naing , Tristan O. Rocheleau
- Applicant: THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
- Applicant Address: US CA Oakland
- Assignee: THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
- Current Assignee: THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Oakland
- Agency: O'Banion & Ritchey LLP
- Agent John P. O'Banion
- Main IPC: H03H11/04
- IPC: H03H11/04 ; H03H9/24 ; H03H9/46 ; H03H9/52 ; H01F27/29 ; H03H9/64

Abstract:
Active feedback is used with two electrodes of a four-electrode capacitive-gap transduced wine-glass disk resonator to enable boosting of an intrinsic resonator Q and to allow independent control of insertion loss across the two other electrodes. Two such Q-boosted resonators configured as parallel micromechanical filters may achieve a tiny 0.001% bandwidth passband centered around 61 MHz with only 2.7 dB of insertion loss, boosting the intrinsic resonator Q from 57,000, to an active Q of 670,000. The split capacitive coupling electrode design removes amplifier feedback from the signal path, allowing independent control of input-output coupling, Q, and frequency. Controllable resonator Q allows creation of narrow channel-select filters with insertion losses lower than otherwise achievable, and allows maximizing the dynamic range of a communication front-end without the need for a variable gain low noise amplifier.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190190497A1 ACTIVE RESONATOR SYSTEM WITH TUNABLE QUALITY FACTOR, FREQUENCY, AND IMPEDANCE Public/Granted day:2019-06-20
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