A resonator includes an anchor, an outer stiffener ring on an outer perimeter of the resonator, and a plurality of curved springs between the anchor and the outer stiffener ring.

The present description concerns a clock signal generation device (902) comprising: a microelectromechanical resonant element (504); and at least one nanoelectromechanical transduction element (512).

A silicon microelectromechanical system, MEMS, resonator assembly, includes four flexural beam elements forming a rectangular frame, each beam element being connected at an end thereof to an end of a neighboring one of the beam elements. The resonator assembly further includes connection elements for connecting the rectangular frame to at least one mechanical anchor, and the resonator assembly supporting an in-plane flexural collective resonance mode.

A resonator that includes a piezoelectric vibrator, a frame, and a first node generator between the piezoelectric vibrator and the frame. Moreover, a first connecting arm connects the first node generator to the piezoelectric vibrator that opposes the first, and a first holding arm connects the first node generator to a part of the frame that opposes the first node generator. The first node generator includes a width extending in a second direction, which is orthogonal to a first direction of the first connecting arm, that is a maximum width where the first node generator is closer to the first connecting arm than a center of the first node generator relative to the first direction. Moreover, the width of the first node generator gradually decreases from the maximum width as the first node generator extends towards the first holding arm.

A microelectromechanical (MEMS) resonator includes a resonator structure having a plurality of beam elements and connection elements with certain geometry, where the plurality of beam elements are positioned adjacent to each other and adjacent beam elements are mechanically connected to each other by the connection elements, where the geometry of the beam elements or the connection elements varies within the resonator structure.

A resonator that includes a piezoelectric vibrating portion; a retainer provided in at least part of an area surrounding the piezoelectric vibrating portion; a first node generating portion disposed between the piezoelectric vibrating portion and the retainer; a first connecting arm that connects the first node generating portion to a region in the piezoelectric vibrating portion that faces the first node generating portion; and a first retaining arm that connects the first node generating portion to a region in the retainer that faces the first node generating portion. The first node generating portion is substantially symmetrical with respect to each of two lines passing through a center of the first node generating portion along a first direction and a second direction orthogonal to the first direction, with the first direction being a direction that the first connecting arm connects the first node generating portion to the piezoelectric vibrating portion.

A resonator is provided that includes a vibration member that includes a substrate, a metal layer formed along one of main surfaces of the substrate, and a piezoelectric thin film disposed between the substrate and the metal layer. The vibration member vibrates such that a main vibration is a contour vibration. Moreover, a frame surrounds at least a portion of the vibration member, and a support unit connects the vibration member to the frame. The vibration member includes depressed portions on or above the one of main surfaces where the piezoelectric thin film is removed.

Embodiments of the present disclosure relate generally to acoustically decoupled microelectromechanical system devices and, more particularly, to acoustically decoupled microelectromechanical system devices anchored upon phononic crystals. In some embodiments described herein, a device may comprise a resonator, a handle layer, and a pedestal disposed between the resonator and the handle layer, the pedestal connecting the resonator to the handle layer. In the devices described herein, the resonator and the handle layer may be non-coplanar. In some embodiments, the handle layer comprises a phononic crystal to acoustically decouple the resonator from the substrate of the handle layer.

A vibrator that includes a silicon substrate, an electrode facing a surface of the silicon substrate, and a piezoelectric body between the silicon substrate and the electrode and that produces contour vibration in a plane along the surface of the silicon substrate in accordance with a voltage applied to the electrode. The vibrator includes one or more substantially rectangular vibration regions each having a long side parallel to a node of the contour vibration of the piezoelectric body and a short side orthogonal to the node of the contour vibration of the piezoelectric body and corresponding to a half-wavelength of the contour vibration. The resonator satisfies W/T≥4 and y=−0.85×(1/T)+0.57±0.05 where T is the thickness of the silicon substrate, W is the width of the short side of the vibration region, and y is the resistivity of the silicon substrate.

A micromechanical vibrasolator isolates vibration of a micromechanical resonator and includes: phononic bandgap mirrors, monophones connected serially; phonophore arms in an alternating sequence of phonophore arm-monophone-phonophore arm; abutments in acoustic communication with the phononic bandgap mirrors; wherein the micromechanical resonator is interposed between the phononic bandgap mirrors with phononic bandgap mirror arranged in parallel on opposing sides of the micromechanical resonator arranged perpendicular to a direction of vibration of an in-plane vibrational mode of the micromechanical resonator.