Dear Yanni I have done some work on high Q resonators. I have worked mainly with RFMEMS as filter devices. Have you looked at papers on Surface Acoustic Wave (SAW) devices, as this is where a lot of work has already been covered on RFMEMS and achieving higher Q's than other means such as Quartz cystal resonators for example. For a filter circuit the Q factor can be defined as the peak frequency/bandwidth. So for a filter device it is obvious that the tighter the bandwidth the better the device. Thats the simplistict view that I understand. I'm not sure what mathematical proof you are interested in and depends on what your applications are? Best regards Garfay web: http://www.garfayliu.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "hui li"To: Sent: Monday, April 07, 2003 8:07 PM Subject: [mems-talk] High Q resonator > Dear all, > > One of the hot topics in RFMEMS is high frquency high Q rsonator. It seems > that a high Q is of critical importance for MEMS resonators. > > However, i did not see any literature that specifies why a high Q is so > important. Could anyone tell me why we need a such high Q? (I would likt it > to be mathematical) > > Thank you very much! > > Yanni > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > STOP MORE SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE* > http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail > > >