Positioning FBAR technology in the frequency and timing domain

This paper will focus on the technical differentiation of FBAR from other mechanical resonator technologies for timing applications. The talk will also touch on a recent modification of FBAR (the Zero Drift Resonator, ZDR) that is temperature compensated. A further technology differentiator is the size of the chip-scale packaged resonator. Using the same technology used in manufacturing Avago Technologies' filter duplexer (over 3 billion sold) allows us to leverage qualified processes and thus go to market quickly. Furthermore, the silicon lid is perfectly suitable for placing integrated circuits and this is being done. All of these factors, (wide tuning range, high Q, high frequency, small size, integrated circuitry) are being used to differentiate potential products for the Time and Frequency Markets.