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公开(公告)号:US11342928B1
公开(公告)日:2022-05-24
申请号:US17460575
申请日:2021-08-30
Applicant: Texas Instruments Incorporated
Inventor: Bichoy Bahr , Baher Haroun , Swaminathan Sankaran , Juan Alejandro Herbsommer
Abstract: A method, providing an oscillator output signal to reference inputs of a PLL and an output clock circuit; providing a first divisor value to a control input of the PLL to regulate a closed loop that includes a physics cell, a receiver, and the PLL; providing a second divisor value to a control input of the output clock circuit to control an output frequency of an output clock signal; shifting the first divisor value in a first direction to cause a perturbation in the closed loop; shifting the second divisor value in an opposite second direction to counteract a response of the closed loop to the perturbation and to regulate the output frequency of the output clock signal; and based on the receiver output signal, analyzing the response of the closed loop to the perturbation.
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公开(公告)号:US20220146601A1
公开(公告)日:2022-05-12
申请号:US17095271
申请日:2020-11-11
Applicant: Texas Instruments Incorporated
Abstract: In described examples, a magnetic sensor includes a waveguide that encapsulates dipolar molecules. A mm-wave electromagnetic field is launched into the waveguide, travels through the dipolar molecules, and is then received after passing through the dipolar molecules. The frequency of the mm-wave electromagnetic signal is swept across a range that includes an intrinsic quantum rotational state transition frequency (Fr) for the dipolar molecules. Absorption peaks in accordance with the Zeeman effect are determined. A strength of a magnetic field affecting the magnetic sensor is proportional to a difference in the frequencies of the absorption peaks.
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公开(公告)号:US11188032B2
公开(公告)日:2021-11-30
申请号:US16589176
申请日:2019-10-01
Applicant: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
Inventor: Bichoy Bahr , Argyrios Dellis , Adam Fruehling , Juan Alejandro Herbsommer
IPC: G04F5/00
Abstract: A clock generator includes a hermetically sealed cavity and clock generation circuitry. A dipolar molecule in the hermetically sealed cavity has a quantum rotational state transition at a fixed frequency. The clock generation circuitry generates an output clock signal based on the fixed frequency of the dipolar molecule. The clock generation circuitry includes a detection circuit, a reference oscillator, and control circuitry. The detection circuit generates a first detection signal and a second detection signal representative of amplitude of signal at an output of the hermetically sealed cavity responsive to a first sweep signal and a second sweep signal input to the hermetically sealed cavity. The control circuitry sets a frequency of the reference oscillator based on a difference in time of identification of the fixed frequency of the dipolar molecule in the first detection signal and the second detection signal.
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公开(公告)号:US10969746B2
公开(公告)日:2021-04-06
申请号:US16730332
申请日:2019-12-30
Applicant: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
Abstract: In described examples, a physics cell includes: a laser source configured to emit light towards an atomic chamber containing an atomic gas; a photodetector configured to receive emissions from the atomic chamber; and a field coil for generating a magnetic field in the atomic chamber. An electronics circuit includes: a controller circuit coupled to the photodetector output and having control outputs to a digital to analog converter circuit; the digital to analog converter circuit having a coil current output to adjust the magnetic field, a modulation control output to control a modulation of the light, and having an output to control a voltage controlled oscillator; and a radio-frequency output circuit having a voltage controlled oscillator coupled to the output of the digital to analog converter circuit outputting a radio frequency signal to the laser source in the physics cell.
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公开(公告)号:US10900837B2
公开(公告)日:2021-01-26
申请号:US16234195
申请日:2018-12-27
Applicant: Texas Instruments Incorporated
Inventor: Adam Joseph Fruehling , Juan Alejandro Herbsommer , Argyrios Dellis
IPC: G01J3/42 , G01N21/3581
Abstract: A compact mmW spectroscopy cell system for detecting volatile organic compounds (compounds) in a gas. The system includes a gas collection chamber, an input buffer cavity for receiving the gas from the gas collection chamber, pumping devices to pass the gas from the buffer cavity to an absorption cell and maintain pressure, and a transceiver connected to the cell. The transceiver interrogates the absorption cell filled with the gas by passing a high frequency electromagnetic signal and sweeping the signal to generate an absorption spectra which is compared to a spectroscopy database for detecting the compounds in the gas. The absorption cell, collection chambers, and pumping devices are fabricated with standard CMOS processing techniques at chip and wafer scale. The transceiver bonded to the absorption cell with chip scale integration.
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公开(公告)号:US10859980B2
公开(公告)日:2020-12-08
申请号:US16234499
申请日:2018-12-27
Applicant: Texas Instruments Incorporated
Inventor: Argyrios Dellis , Juan Alejandro Herbsommer , Adam Joseph Fruehling
Abstract: A clock apparatus with a gas cell. The gas cell includes: (i) a first chamber including a sealed interior for providing a signal waveguide; and (ii) a second chamber, in fluid communication with the first chamber, and comprising apparatus for directing atoms having a selected velocity vector into the first chamber.
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公开(公告)号:US10754302B2
公开(公告)日:2020-08-25
申请号:US16234492
申请日:2018-12-27
Applicant: Texas Instruments Incorporated
Inventor: Juan Alejandro Herbsommer , Argyrios Dellis , Adam Joseph Fruehling
Abstract: A clock apparatus, with: (i) a gas cell, including a cavity including a sealed interior for providing a signal waveguide; (ii) a first apparatus for providing a first electromagnetic wave to travel in the cavity and along a first direction; (iii) a second apparatus for providing a second electromagnetic wave to travel in the cavity and along a second direction opposite the first direction; (iv) a dipolar gas inside the sealed interior of the cavity; and (v) receiving apparatus for detecting an amount of energy in the second electromagnetic wave after the second electromagnetic wave passes through the dipolar gas.
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公开(公告)号:US10658868B2
公开(公告)日:2020-05-19
申请号:US15228665
申请日:2016-08-04
Applicant: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
Inventor: Ralf J. Muenster , Ali Djabbari , Juan Alejandro Herbsommer
Abstract: An apparatus includes a housing for an electronic circuit. The housing includes at least three planes that form a structure to house the electronic circuit. At least one channel is formed along at least one of the three planes to provide a waveguide in the housing for wireless communications. A wireless communications module communicates via the waveguide to control the electronic circuit enclosed in the housing.
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公开(公告)号:US10649408B2
公开(公告)日:2020-05-12
申请号:US16234494
申请日:2018-12-27
Applicant: Texas Instruments Incorporated
Inventor: Juan Alejandro Herbsommer , Bichoy Bahr , Argyrios Dellis , Adam Joseph Fruehling
Abstract: A clock apparatus with: (i) a gas cell, including a continuous path cavity including a sealed interior for providing a signal waveguide; (ii) an apparatus for providing an electromagnetic wave to travel along the continuous path cavity and for circulating around the continuous path cavity back toward and past a point of entry of the electromagnetic wave in the continuous path cavity; (iii) a dipolar gas inside the sealed interior of the cavity; and (iv) receiving apparatus for detecting an amount of energy in the electromagnetic wave, wherein the amount of energy is responsive to an amount of absorption of the electromagnetic wave as the electromagnetic wave passes through the dipolar gas.
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公开(公告)号:US10551265B2
公开(公告)日:2020-02-04
申请号:US15698445
申请日:2017-09-07
Applicant: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
Inventor: Benjamin Stassen Cook , Django Trombley , Adam Joseph Fruehling , Juan Alejandro Herbsommer
Abstract: A pressure transducer includes a cavity, a first dipolar molecule disposed within the cavity, and a second dipolar molecule disposed within the cavity. The first dipolar molecule exhibits a quantum rotational state transition at a fixed frequency with respect to cavity pressure. The second dipolar molecule exhibits a quantum rotation state transition at a frequency that varies with cavity pressure.
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