Advantages, disadvantages and applications of crystal oscillator

Advantages:

There are some advantages of crystal oscillator which are given below,

• The crystal oscillator has very low frequency drift due to change in temperature and other parameters.
• The crystal oscillator Q is very high.
• It has Automatic amplitude control.
• It has very high frequency stability.
• The crystal oscillator is possible to obtain very high precise and stable frequency of oscillators.
• It has High frequency of operation.

Disadvantages:

There are some disadvantages of crystal oscillator which are given below,

• Crystals of low fundamental frequencies are not easily available.
• These are suitable for high frequency application.

Applications:

There are some important application of crystal oscillator which are given below,

• The crystal oscillators are used in radio and TV transmitters.
• It is used as a crystal clock in microprocessors.
• It is used in the frequency synthesizers.
• It is used in special types of receivers.