Research Article

Natural Frequencies and Mode Shapes of Mechanically Coupled Microbeam Resonators with an Application to Micromechanical Filters

Table 2

Natural frequencies (in MHz) for a filter and a single resonator identical to the resonators of the filter.

FilterSingle resonator
Mode shape numberNatural frequency Mode shape numberNatural frequency
Analytical ANSYS Difference (%)

1 9.471 9.460 0.116 1 9.475
2 9.479 9.469 0.105
3 26.015 25.909 0.407 2 26.118
4 26.099 25.991 0.414
5 37.787 37.622 0.437
6 51.017 50.570 0.876 3 51.202
7 51.385 50.930 0.885
8 83.574 82.345 1.470 4 84.639
9 84.453 83.176 1.512
10 104.463 102.740 1.649