Robert Darlington wrote: > not 980kHz, not 1.2Mhz. The way I achieve this is to lay down gold, a few > atoms at a time, and track a resonance peak (network analyzer and some > simple code in VB of all things). We actually drive the transducer as we > sputter coat the gold on top and can see the resonance point shift, real > time. Cool stuff. They use a similar process in industry but they're > looking at one data point in a vacuum chamber full of transducers. I'm > looking at every single one. > > -Bob
The 10811 crystals were made this way. One at a time, they were coated with gold while connected to a network analyzer. Rick Karlquist N6RK _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.