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This paper presents some important relationships relating to frequencies in contoured AT-cut quartz resonators. It is shown that frequency interval relations are not affected by the piezoelement geometry but are functionally related solely to the indices of the Hermite functions. According to the analysis of trapped-energy resonators, an X-ray technique for predicting the frequency spectrum can be derived. It is based on the use of X-ray patterns of two wave motions and enables one to determine the whole frequency spectrum in the vicinity of any odd harmonic overtone of vibration. Two contoured resonator analyses show that the X-ray topography predictions are in good agreement with experimental data.
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Slavov, S. Prediction of the frequency spectrum of AT-cut contoured quartz resonators by means of X-ray diffraction topography. Appl. Phys. A 52, 184–187 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00324415
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