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Towards chip-scale atomic clocks
Nguyen, C.T.-C. Kitching, J.
Defense Adv. Res. Projects Agency, Arlington, VA, USA;

This paper appears in: Solid-State Circuits Conference, 2005. Digest of Technical Papers. ISSCC. 2005 IEEE International
Publication Date: 10-10 Feb. 2005
On page(s): 84-85 Vol. 1
Location: San Francisco, CA,
ISSN: 0193-6530
ISBN: 0-7803-8904-2
INSPEC Accession Number: 8643469
Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/ISSCC.2005.1493880
Current Version Published: 2005-08-29

Abstract
MEMS technology is used to shrink atomic clocks from their present-day table-top sizes down to only 1 cm³ while at the same time retaining timing stability on the order of 30 ns over one hour. The power consumption of the system is less than 30 mW.

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