Optical control and tuning of thermal-piezoresistive self-sustained oscillators

Author

Hall, H.J. ; Wang, Lingfeng ; Bunch, J.S. ; Pourkamali, Siavash ; Bright, V.M.

Author_Institution

Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA

fYear

2014

fDate

26-30 Jan. 2014

Firstpage

1201

Lastpage

1204

Abstract

The ability to frequency tune and provide on/off control of electrically driven thermal-piezoresistive self-sustained oscillators through the application of HeNe (632 nm wavelength) laser illumination to devices is reported in this work. Photoexcitation of charge carriers is presented as the physical mechanism to control the piezoresistive coefficient and electrical resistivity enabling these abilities. The results are significant in that they offer a novel means to directly control the electronic output of RF oscillators through photonics.

Keywords

electrical resistivity; optical control; optical tuning; piezoresistive devices; radiofrequency oscillators; HeNe application; RF oscillators; charge carriers; electrical resistivity; electrically driven oscillators; laser illumination; optical control; optical tuning; photoexcitation; piezoresistive coefficient; self-sustained oscillators; thermal-piezoresistive oscillators; wavelength 632 nm; Lighting; Measurement by laser beam; Optical resonators; Oscillators; Piezoresistance; Power lasers; Silicon;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS), 2014 IEEE 27th International Conference on

Conference_Location

San Francisco, CA

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MEMSYS.2014.6765863

Filename

6765863