An Unique Design of Temperature Compensated SC-Cut Crystal Oscillators

Abstract

To improve the temperature characteristics of SC-cut oscillators without degrading their phase noise and short term stabilities, an oscillator circuit has been designed. This circuit uses an AT-cut resonator as a temperature reference of the output frequency, that is, the oscillation frequency of the SC-cut circuit traces the temperature characteristics of the AT-cut resonator. Experimental results show that the frequency stability for the temperature is improved 30 times better than normal oscillators.