SBIR Phase I: Nanomechanical Resonator Technology for Passive and Active Devices in Wireless Applications

SBIR 第一阶段：无线应用中无源和有源器件的纳米机械谐振器技术

• 批准号: 0740584
• 负责人: Pritiraj Mohanty
• 金额: $ 10万
• 依托单位: Sand 9, Inc.
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2008-01-01 至 2008-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0740584&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SBIR; Phase; Nanomechanical; Resonator; Technology

This Small Business Innovation Research Phase I research project seeks to develop novel radio-frequency components for wireless communication using an innovative nanomechanical resonator technology platform. The company has developed the world's highest-frequency mechanical resonator and will use this device to create programmable RF filters for wireless communications in the 100 MHz to 3 GHz ranges. The project will develop a 900MHz and 2GHz filter design, test and characterize the design, transfer the manufacturing process to a commercial CMOS fabrication, package the devices using standard commercially available methods, design and test a single pole double throw switch and integrate a switch and filter onto the same die. Each of these resonators can act as a high Q filter, and arrays of these resonators can be combined to create bandpass filters of arbitrary bandwidth with low insertion loss and excellent outside-band attenuation.This potentially disruptive technology incorporates novel mechanical amplification of rigid nanostructures to achieve GHz resonant frequencies and RF performance levels not possible with MEMS scale devices. These filters will offer significant performance improvement over existing RF filter approaches with significant improvement in size, power consumption and filter performance. This platform will also allow additional devices such as clock oscillators and digital circuitry to be integrated onto the same chip. This technology will be used to replace existing discreet filters in cell phones and other mobile wireless devices with the ability to access many different air interfaces with excellent radio performance.

这个小企业创新研究第一阶段的研究项目旨在开发新的无线通信射频元件使用创新的纳米机械谐振器技术平台。该公司已经开发出世界上频率最高的机械谐振器，并将使用该器件为100 MHz至3 GHz范围内的无线通信创建可编程RF滤波器。该项目将开发900 MHz和2 GHz滤波器设计，测试和表征设计，将制造工艺转移到商业CMOS制造，使用标准商用方法封装器件，设计和测试单刀双掷开关，并将开关和滤波器集成到同一个芯片上。这些谐振器中的每一个都可以充当高Q滤波器，并且这些谐振器的阵列可以组合以创建具有低插入损耗和优异的带外衰减的任意带宽的带通滤波器。这些滤波器将在尺寸、功耗和滤波器性能方面显著改善现有RF滤波器方法的性能。该平台还将允许将时钟振荡器和数字电路等其他设备集成到同一芯片上。该技术将用于取代蜂窝电话和其他移动的无线设备中现有的离散滤波器，具有访问具有出色无线电性能的许多不同空中接口的能力。