Advances in technology to support AI and edge computing will likely drive a shift away from quartz timing toward silicon MEMS ...

If you’re looking for a 1-second time reference, you’d probably just grab a GPS module off the shelf and use the 1PPS output. As demonstrated by [InazumaDenki], though, an old quartz cl… ...

Quartz clocks cannot provide that level of accuracy. To get around this, physicists have locked quartz crystals to the natural resonance of atoms. When exposed to precise frequencies, ...

TU Wien researchers created a quantum ring clock that achieves exponential accuracy gains with minimal energy use.

Atomic clocks were believed to be a huge improvement on quartz clocks because of the atom's stability. In the atomic clock, a quartz crystal oscillator is combined with an ensemble of atoms.

In an atomic clock, like the one Burt and colleagues sent to space in 2019, the quartz is supplemented with something called a trapped-ion.These atoms can be trapped using specially coated chamber ...

Milestones In Quartz Technology. 1880: French physicists Jacques and Pierre Curie discover piezoelectricity in quartz. 1927: Warren Marrison and J. W. Horton create the first quartz clock at Bell ...