Method of Making a High Stability Quartz Crystal Oscillator.

Abstract

A high stability quartz crystal oscillator is made from a quartz crystal plate by first cutting the quartz crystal plate at the angles that results in a resonator having a turnover temperature below the lowest operating temperature of the equipment in which the oscillator is to be used. A resonator is made from the quartz plate; the resonator then connected into a high stability oscillator circuit, and the oscillator-circuit/resonator combination placed into a temperature controlled environment where the temperature is maintained at a temperature between the lowest operating temperature of the equipment in which the oscillator is to be used to about -250 C.

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 18, 1983
Accession Number
ADD010227

Entities

People

  • John R. Vig

Organizations

  • United States Department of the Air Force

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Controlled Environment
  • Crystal Oscillators
  • Electronic Equipment
  • Oscillators
  • Resonators

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Materials Science and Engineering.
  • Optical Physics and Photonics.