Quantum 1/f noise and the resulting phase noise in high-stability resonant sensors

Author

Adam Gregory Tournier

Abstract

"The size of oscillators affects not only operating frequency, but noise levels as well. Thermal noise and nonequilibrium noise both are inversely proportional to size, while 1/f noise is proportional to size at quartz sizes blow the phonon coherence length. The size limit for a specific sensor design is then limited by 1/f, thermal, and nonequilibrium noise. As the size of the resonator sensor decreases the normally dominant 1/f term decreases until it is not the limiting term. The ultimate lower size limit for any given BAW, SAW, or MEMS sensor design can thus be calculated for the first time from first principles based on the quantum 1/f formulas. Device design criteria are very important as the sizes and frequency domains of sensors become smaller and larger respectively"--Abstract, page iii.

Department(s)

Physics

Degree Name

Ph. D. in Physics

Comments

Dissertation completed as part of a cooperative degree program with the University of Missouri--Rolla and the University of Missouri--St. Louis.

Publisher

University of Missouri--Rolla

Publication Date

Fall 2005

Pagination

viii, 141 pages

Note about bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 137-140).

Rights

© 2005 Adam Gregory Tournier, All rights reserved.

Document Type

Dissertation - Citation

File Type

text

Language

English

Subject Headings

Electronic noiseQuantum electronicsElectromagnetic noiseAcoustic surface wave devicesMicroelectromechanical systems

Thesis Number

T 8834

Print OCLC #

85869326

Recommended Citation

Tournier, Adam Gregory, "Quantum 1/f noise and the resulting phase noise in high-stability resonant sensors" (2005). Doctoral Dissertations. 1672.
https://scholarsmine.mst.edu/doctoral_dissertations/1672