• DocumentCode
    1668715
  • Title

    Towards chip-scale atomic clocks

  • Author

    Nguyen, Clark T C ; Kitching, John

  • Author_Institution
    Defense Adv. Res. Projects Agency, Arlington, VA, USA
  • fYear
    2005
  • Firstpage
    84
  • Abstract
    MEMS technology is used to shrink atomic clocks from their present-day table-top sizes down to only 1 cm3 while at the same time retaining timing stability on the order of 30 ns over one hour. The power consumption of the system is less than 30 mW.
  • Keywords
    atomic clocks; chip scale packaging; micromechanical devices; stability; MEMS technology; chip-scale atomic clocks; timing stability; Atom optics; Atomic clocks; Electromagnetic heating; Electronic packaging thermal management; Frequency; Global Positioning System; Physics; Satellites; Stability; Timing;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Solid-State Circuits Conference, 2005. Digest of Technical Papers. ISSCC. 2005 IEEE International
  • Conference_Location
    San Francisco, CA
  • ISSN
    0193-6530
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-8904-2
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ISSCC.2005.1493880
  • Filename
    1493880
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=1668715