Direct Detection of Akhiezer Damping in a Silicon MEMS Resonator

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Silicon Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS) resonators have broad commercial applications for timing and inertial sensing. However, the performance of MEMS resonators is constrained by dissipation mechanisms, some of which are easily detected and well-understood, but some of which have never been directly observed. In this work, we present measurements of the quality factor, Q, for a family of single crystal silicon Lamé-mode resonators as a function of temperature, from 80–300 K. By comparing these Q measurements on resonators with variations in design, dimensions, and anchors, we have been able to show that gas damping, thermoelastic dissipation, and anchor damping are not significant dissipation mechanisms for these resonators. The measured f · Q product for these devices approaches 2 × 10 13 , which is consistent with the expected range for Akhiezer damping, and the dependence of Q on temperature and geometry is consistent with expectations for Akhiezer damping. These results thus provide the first clear, direct detection of Akhiezer dissipation in a MEMS resonator, which is widely considered to be the ultimate limit to Q in silicon MEMS devices.

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Rodriguez, J., Chandorkar, S. A., Watson, C. A., Glaze, G. M., Ahn, C. H., Ng, E. J., … Kenny, T. W. (2019). Direct Detection of Akhiezer Damping in a Silicon MEMS Resonator. Scientific Reports, 9(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-38847-6

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