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Single Active Nanoelectromechanical Tuning Fork Front-End Radio-Frequency Receiver

Bartsch, Sebastian  
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Rusu, Alexandru  
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Ionescu, Mihai Adrian  
2012
Nanotechnology

Nanoelectromechanical systems (NEMS) offer the potential to revolutionize fundamental methods employed for signal processing in today's telecommunication systems,1-4 owing to their spectral purity and the prospect of integration with existing technology. In this work, we present a novel, front-end receiver topology based on a single-device silicon nanoelectromechanical mixer-filter. The operation is demonstrated by using the signal amplification in a field effect transistor (FET) merged into a tuning fork resonator. The combination of both a transistor and a mechanical element into a hybrid unit enables on-chip functionality and performance in silicon previously unachievable. Signal mixing, filtering and demodulation are experimentally demonstrated at very high frequencies (>100 MHz), maintaining a high quality factor of Q=800, and stable operation at near ambient pressure (0.1 atm) and room temperature (T=300 K). The results show that ultimately miniaturized, silicon NEMS can be utilized to realize multi-band, single-chip receiver systems based on NEMS mixer-filter arrays with reduced system complexity and power consumption.

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DOI
10.1088/0957-4484/23/22/225501
Web of Science ID

WOS:000305160300007

Author(s)
Bartsch, Sebastian  
Rusu, Alexandru  
Ionescu, Mihai Adrian  
Date Issued

2012

Publisher

Institute of Physics

Published in
Nanotechnology
Volume

23

Issue

22

Article Number

225501

Subjects

Array

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demodulation

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nanoelectromechanical systems (NEMS)

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radio frequency

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receiver

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silicon-on-insulator (SOI)

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REVIEWED

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