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MrBuddyCasinotoday at 12:24 PM2 repliesview on HN

Fascinating. I suppose they can be smaller than quartz crystals?


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ahartmetztoday at 2:04 PM

If you find that fascinating already... did you know that all cellphones use mechanical filters in the GHz range? They combine very good performance with very low energy consumption.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surface_acoustic_wave

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akustische-Oberfl%C3%A4chenwel... (pictures)

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drum55today at 12:31 PM

Very little uses crystal oscillators, they’re gigantic compared with electronics today and have very wonky performance over temperature and shock.

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