摘要:
A passivation layer (110) of dielectric material disposed on the top surface of the SAW device (10) prevents the metallized transducer pattern (30, 40) on the piezoelectric substrate (20) from being exposed to chemical attack. This layer (110) also provides for improved metal acousto-migration resistance through the well-known mechanism of grain boundary pinning. The piezoelectric SAW device substrate (20) includes a dielectric layer (110) which is disposed along the surface over the transducer (30, 40) metallization. The piezoelectric substrate (20) includes metallized regions (120) on top of the dielectric layer (110) which is disposed over the substrate (20) surface and the SAW transducers (30, 40) thereon. These metallized regions (120) form capacitors to the transducer busses (131, 136, 141, 146) and capacitively couple electrical input and output signals to the transducers (30, 40) from external electronic apparatus (90, 95).
摘要:
An acoustic wave filter (200, 300) having a substrate for supporting propagation of acoustic waves, and first (220, 315), second (235, 330) and third (210, 310) acoustic wave transducers disposed on the substrate. The first acoustic wave transducer (220, 315) includes at least one bus bar (221, 316) electrically coupled to a first electrical port (205, 305) of the acoustic wave filter (200, 300). The second acoustic wave transducer (235, 330) is disposed on the substrate in line with the first acoustic wave transducer (220, 315) and is acoustically coupled thereto. The second acoustic wave transducer (235, 330) includes at least one bus bar (236', 331) electrically coupled to a second electrical port (240, 345) of the acoustic wave filter (200, 300). The third acoustic wave transducer (210, 310) includes at least one bus bar (211, 311') electrically coupled to the first electrical port (205, 305). The third acoustic wave transducer (210, 310) is acoustically decoupled from either the first (220, 315) or second (235, 330) acoustic wave transducers.
摘要:
A filter device (301,501,501,601) comprises an acoustic wave propagating substrate having an effective coupling coefficient k² and having a first filter (310,310',320,320',330,340,340',340'',...,510,620) and a second filter (350,360,360',360'',...,370,370',380,380',520,630) disposed on the acoustic wave propagating substrate. The first filter (310,310',320,320',330,340,340',340'',...,510,620) comprises a first electro-acoustic transducer (310,310',320,320') and a first acousto-electric transducer (330,340,340',340'',...), both disposed on the acoustic wave propagating substrate. The first acousto-electric (330,340,340',340'',...) transducer comprises N₁ many electrode pairs, wherein N₁ ≧ C/k². C is a constant having a value in the range from 1 to 2. The first electro-acoustic transducer (310,310',320,320') is acoustically coupled to the first acousto-electric transducer (330,340,340',340'',...). The second filter (350,360,360',360'',...,370,370',380,380',520,630) comprises a second electro-acoustic transducer (350,360,360',360'',...) and a second acousto-electric transducer (370,370',380,380'), both disposed on the acoustic wave propagating substrate. The second electro-acoustic transducer (350,360,360',360'',...) is electrically coupled to the first acousto-electric transducer (330,340,340',340'',...). The second electro-acoustic transducer (350,360,360',360'',...) comprises N₂ many electrode pairs, wherein N₂
摘要:
A SAW transducer (10) eliminates mechanical energy reflections by using one-quarter wavelength electrodes (12, 14, 15, 16,17) spaced at predetermined intervals. Dummy electrodes (14, 15) are shifted one-quarter wavelength to cancel energy reflections in the active electrodes (12, 13, 17). A pair of dummy electrodes (14, 15) is required for each active set (17, 12, 13) of electrodes (the active set comprises one positive (12) and two negative electrodes (17, 13).
摘要:
A piezoelectric substrate (120) and a method for preparing same. The method includes steps of (i) providing a boule of piezoelectric material, (ii) orienting the boule to Euler angles chosen to provide a boundary condition matched to a partially-metallized surface and (iii) sawing the boule into at least a first slice (120) having first and second surfaces, at least one of the first and second surfaces comprising a planar surface. The method desirably but not essentially further includes steps of (iv) polishing at least one of the first and second surfaces to provide a substantially planar polished surface, (v) disposing a layer of metal on the at least one of the first and second surfaces and (vi) patterning the layer of metal to provide at least one interdigitated pattern (105, 110) comprising an acoustic wave transducer (105, 110), the acoustic wave transducer (105, 110) providing the boundary condition matched to a partially-metallized surface.
摘要:
An acoustic wave filtering apparatus includes an acoustic wave propagating substrate (120) for supporting propagation of acoustic waves and a plurality of acoustic wave filters (217, 219) for filtering an electrical signal. Each of said plurality further comprises an input (201) for supplying electrical input signals, an input unidirectional acoustic wave transducer (203, 205, 250; 223, 225, 260) for converting electrical signal energy into acoustic energy, an output unidirectional acoustic wave transducer (210, 213, 255; 230, 233, 265) for converting acoustic signals to electrical signals, and an output (215) for combining and delivering electrical output signals to external electrical apparatus.
摘要:
A surface acoustic wave (SAW) device package (10) for reducing insertion loss and direct RF feedthrough of the SAW device (14). The package (10) provides for extensive shielding of each of the input (32) and output (20, 23) pads. The inputs (32) and outputs (20, 23) to the SAW device (14) are separated by maintaining the inputs (32) on one surface (13) of the substrate (14) and the outputs (20, 23) on the opposite surface of the substrate (14). The SAW crystal substrate (14) including the SAW devices (15, 36, 17) is bonded (48) to the package substrate (12) and hermetically sealed via a low-temperature glass seal (35) or solder-type sealing (45, 60), for example.
摘要:
A method and apparatus for a ladder filter (300, 400) incorporating same. The filter (100, 300, 400, 1803, 1807, 1815, 1823, 1829) includes a substrate and a first series resonator (305, 403) disposed on the substrate and electrically coupled in series between the first electrical port (301, 401) and a first node. The first series resonator (305, 403) includes a first series acoustic reflector (303), a first series gap, a first series transducer (304, 403), a second series gap and a second series acoustic reflector (306) collectively disposed in an in-line configuration along a principal axis (8, 9) of the substrate. The filter (300, 400) also includes a first shunt resonator (310, 404) disposed on the substrate and electrically coupled in shunt between the first node and ground. The first shunt transducer (312) and the first series transducer (304) have different periodicities not equal to periodicities of the first (303) and second series acoustic reflectors (306) and the first (311) and second (313) shunt acoustic reflectors.