Anderson Electronics has been in business since 1959 as a manufacturer of crystals and crystal oscillators.    It is a family owned company and the President (Mr. William Anderson) is the son of the founder.    The company occupies 32,000-sq.    ft. of space in two buildings and is situated on 10 acres.    These buildings are fairly new, the administration, sales, finishing and engineering are in one building (built in 1988), cutting and lapping in the other building (built 1990).    We have 3 engineers with 9 to 39 years’ experience in the crystal and oscillator industry and 2 technicians and a total employment of 78 people.

泰艺电子为专业石英频率控制组件制造商，成立于 1976 年，主要产品包括「石英振荡子」、「石英振荡器」、「压控温补振荡器」、「温度补偿石英振荡器」，为台湾第一家拥有生产「恒温控制石英振荡器」技术的制造商，客户遍及汽车、消费性电子、信息、通讯与通讯基础等产业，完整的产品线提供客户一次性购足的服务。

泰艺立基台湾，在南京、深圳以及郑州拥有完整的研发设计、应用工程、生产与销售资源，以严谨的质量管理系统赢得客户的信赖。除此之外，于美国也有相同的部署，使泰艺成为全球关键电信设备厂商的首选频控组件厂商；泰艺致力于研发创新，拥有的核心技术为台湾业界的领先者；未来也将持续致力研究开发，为全球客户提供顶尖的产品以及服务，以成为全球频控组件领导者之目标迈进。

世界上第一块石英表的实际应用与音叉石英晶振的开发是不少工程师所流下的血液，汗水以及眼泪的结晶.随着时间慢慢的推移,石英晶振产品不断的连接着电视,电脑,手机,手表等慢慢靠近着我们的生活.渐渐的这些石英晶振产品已发展成电子行业不可或缺的固定产品.甚至被称为”工业之盐”,电子产品的”心脏”.这些石英晶振最早主由EPSON TOYOCOM公司生产制作而成.

The practical application of the world's first quartz watch and the development of the tuning fork quartz crystal oscillator are the crystallization of blood, sweat and tears that many engineers shed. As time goes by, quartz crystal products are continuously connected to TVs and computers. Mobile phones, watches, etc. are slowly approaching our lives. Gradually these quartz crystal products have developed into indispensable fixed products for the electronics industry. They are even called "the salt of industry", the "heart" of electronic products. These quartz crystal oscillators The earliest production was produced by EPSON TOYOCOM.

QMEMS(Quartz+”MEMS”)是促进MEMS(微电子机械系统)晶体材料微加工工艺独特技术的名称,是EPSON TOYOCOM公司产品的主要核心技术.通过充分利用这项技术的优势可以为石英晶体器件实现更小巧的尺寸及更好的性能.QMEMS技术的起源可以追溯到20世纪70年代初.

QMEMS (Quartz+ "MEMS") is the name of a unique technology that promotes micromachining of MEMS (micro-electro-mechanical systems) crystal materials. It is the main core technology of EPSON TOYOCOM. By taking advantage of this technology, it can be realized for quartz crystal devices. Smaller size and better performance. The origins of QMEMS technology can be traced back to the early 1970s.

1969年，在日本中部的苏瓦湖岸边，当地的一家公司悄然成功地将世界上第一块石英晶振手表变成了现实 - “精工石英天文35Q”（图1），这一事件让世界措手不及。

In 1969, on the shores of Lake Suva in central Japan, a local company quietly succeeded in turning the world's first quartz watch into reality - "Seiko Quartz Astronomy 35Q" (Figure 1), an event that caught the world off guard. .

这真是一个划时代的突破。在此之前，石英钟表虽然非常精确，但却非常大，以至于不能轻易携带，而是采用箱形钟表的形式悬挂在墙壁上。虽然机械手表当然已经存在，但这些并不精确。需要一个创新的解决方案来解决更好的精度和更紧凑的尺寸的双重问题，全球各地的公司都在1960年代中后期进行无情竞争以找到一个问题。

This is really an epoch-making breakthrough. Prior to this, quartz clocks, although very precise, were so large that they could not be easily carried, but were suspended from the wall in the form of a box-shaped clock. Although mechanical watches certainly exist, these are not precise. An innovative solution is needed to solve the double problem of better precision and more compact size, and companies around the world have ruthlessly competed in the mid to late 1960s to find a problem.

图1：世界上第一块石英手表'精工石英Astron 35Q'
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图2：Quartz Astron开发之前的晶体单元这是
在Quartz Astron到来之前实际使用的晶体单元
类型的一个例子。虽然看起来很大，长约50毫
米，但它实际上是当时最小的水晶单元之一.

它是精工苏瓦株式会社，苏瓦湖岸边，它正悄悄地控制着这个发展的竞争对手。使精工苏瓦株式会社领先其竞争对手的因素之一是该公司成功地使晶体单元更加紧凑。传统的水晶装置尺寸非常大，无法装入手表般小的东西（图2）。精工苏瓦株式会社通过采用称为“音叉晶体”的新结构解决了这个问题。新开发的'Cal.35SQ'型尺寸*晶体单元的直径为4.3mm×长度为18.5mm（图3）。此外，精工苏瓦株式会社还能够调整水晶单元的内部结构，以便克服腕表连接在佩戴者手腕上时经常受到的振动和撞击所引起的问题。

It is Seiko Suva Co., on the shores of Lake Suva, and it is quietly controlling this growing competitor. One of the factors that led Seiko Suva to lead its competitors was the company's success in making crystal units more compact. The traditional crystal device is very large in size and cannot be loaded into a watch-like thing (Fig. 2). Seiko Suva solved this problem by adopting a new structure called "tuning fork crystal". The newly developed 'Cal.35SQ' size* crystal unit has a diameter of 4.3 mm and a length of 18.5 mm (Fig. 3). In addition, Seiko Suva can adjust the internal structure of the crystal unit to overcome the problems caused by vibrations and impacts that are often encountered when the watch is attached to the wearer's wrist.

*此时公司开发的音叉式水晶单元用于Suwa Seikosha内部制造的手表。因此，“我们没有给他们一个特定的产品型号，只是通过他们的机芯名称或手表的操作机制（Calibre，或'Cal。'）来提及它们，”Mutsumi Negita说。

* At this time, the company's tuning fork crystal unit was used for watches made inside Suwa Seikosha. Therefore, "we didn't give them a specific product model, just mention them by their movement name or the operating mechanism of the watch (Calibre, or 'Cal.')," Mutsumi Negita said.

图3：Quartz Astron中使用的音叉晶体单元
采用新开发的音叉结构，使Suwa Seikosha能够成功制造出更小的晶体单元，半径仅为4.3mm，长度为18.5mm。它被分配了型号“Type Cal.35SQ”并且具有8.192kHz的正常频率。

Figure 3: Tuning fork crystal unit used in Quartz Astron
With the newly developed tuning fork structure, Suwa Seikosha was able to successfully manufacture smaller crystal units with a radius of only 4.3 mm and a length of 18.5 mm. It is assigned the model "Type Cal.35SQ" and has a normal frequency of 8.192 kHz.

在过去的几年中,娱乐,游戏和便携式市场的电子设备加速的增长推动了石英晶体和晶体振荡器的需求不断增加,甚至达到了前所未有的生产水平以及生产技术.早在十几年前,爱普生晶振的销量以及生产技术还跟不上市场的需求.比如2012晶振会无法正常出货,体积较小,生产达不到技术要求.但是随着这几年的市场需求量的增长,爱普生晶振也在不断的提升生产技术,不断的改进不足,从而使得更小尺寸1612封装晶振可以正常批量出货.

一直以来石英晶体振荡器的高Q值和稳定的温度特性,使得其在消费,商业,工业以及军事产品中起到重要的作用.自2000年至2001年”互联网”市场崩溃以来,对石英晶体以及振荡器的需求每年稳定增长4%至10%.

在早些时候,典型的GSM手机有四组不同的压电频率控制和发电组件：RF SAW滤波器（使用压电钽酸锂或铌酸锂的900 MHz至2 GHz）用于在天线和收发器芯片组之间进行传输和接收滤波;如果使用超外差降频转换,则使用SAW滤波器（主要使用石英为50至400 MHz）; TCXO（13/26 MHz,使用石英晶体）作为收发器合成器中的时钟参考,用于信道化;和音叉（使用石英晶体的32.768 kHz）用于基带部分的待机时钟.

后来,直接转换技术的成功开发在许多GSM手机中废弃了IF SAW滤波器.几年前,带有片上数字补偿晶体振荡器（DCXO）电路的GSM收发器芯片组消除了对TCXO晶振的需求.但是,仍然需要片外石英晶体.

现在的手持设备似乎没有变小,实际上它们已经变得非常小了,但是手机虽小,功能却大的多.以适应消费者多频段,多模,DSC,DVC,MP3,GPS,互联网接入,蓝牙,DTV等所需的更多功能.跟之前想法相反,随着时间的推移,需要越来越少的片外石英晶体,晶体振荡器和SAW元件,现在手机中存在着更多的石英晶体,音叉晶振,晶体振荡器,高精度温补晶振等.虽然这些组件的独特制造和封装要求使它们几乎不可能集成到成熟的硅IC平台上.

在有线和无线市场的蓬勃发展,从而使得石英晶体以及其高频SAW声表面滤波器得到广泛应用.

传统的石英晶振尺寸型号以4.1*1.5,3.2*1.5以及2.0*1.2mm提供.现在也是将这种石英音叉的厚度达到0.4毫米或者更低,从而适用于薄型产品的使用.小于5032封装石英晶振通常需要在真空中密封从而维持阻抗完整性.低兆赫兹小尺寸石英晶振的坏料也需要倾斜于石英晶体边缘,其变薄.从而有效的获得能量.在未来的几年内将出现更小尺寸的石英晶体(1.6*1.0以及1.0*0.8mm)晶振的使用.全球石英晶体供应商正在为这些小尺寸晶振工作.

很多人都不知道相当多的石英产品(石英晶体,石英音叉晶体,石英陀螺传感器等)正在制造一些MEMS(微机电系统)处理.如光刻,金属化,蚀刻,牺牲层沉积去除,金蚀刻保护等.实际上,复杂的加工步骤非平面金属化方案.由于石英晶体的硬度而耐蚀刻,高度各向异性的石英晶体的不同蚀刻速率等,使得小型化的石英晶体产品的加工更加技术上与许多基于硅的MEMS工艺相比具有挑战性.Epson Toyocom几年前创造了“QMEMS”这一术语,以认识到将石英和MEMS技术与下一代石英晶体器件联系起来的重要性.