Electrical characterization of a tuning fork crystal oscillator using dual-phase lock-in technique

Rev Sci Instrum. 2009 Mar;80(3):034703. doi: 10.1063/1.3103574.

Abstract

We performed an electrical characterization of a tuning fork crystal oscillator using a dual-phase lock-in amplifier. Direct measurements of the complex admittance allowed us to extract all four values of the equivalent circuit model components of the tuning fork crystal oscillator.