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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 06, 2010
Filed:
Apr. 30, 2008
Seungbae Lee, Greensboro, NC (US);
Kushal Bhattacharjee, Kernersville, NC (US);
Seungbae Lee, Greensboro, NC (US);
Kushal Bhattacharjee, Kernersville, NC (US);
RF Micro Devices, Inc., Greensboro, NC (US);
Abstract
The present invention relates to a multi-mode micro-electromechanicalsystems (MEMS) resonator system that may provide low motional resistance and a high quality factor by using a resonating structure that includes multiple parallel-coupled longitudinally resonating bodies, each of which has multiple resonating segments adjacent to one another along an axis. The multi-mode MEMS resonator system may provide high acoustic velocity by using the micro-structure of MEMS technology. The multi-mode MEMS resonator system may include electrostatic transducers, piezoelectric transducers, or both. The present invention includes multiple embodiments that may include different configurations of the resonating structure.