A crystal oscillator is a timing device that consists of a crystal and an oscillator circuit, providing an output waveform at a specific frequency. When a crystal is placed into an amplifier circuit ...

Editor’s Note: The author contributed an article on Oscillators: How to generate a precise clock source last year and decided to add three more sections to the effort. What follows is Part II, which ...

Appropriately cut quartz crystals can be used as high-quality electromechanical resonators. Their piezoelectric properties (voltage across the crystal deforms it; deforming the crystal generates a ...