Abstract:
Acoustic resonator comprising an electret, and method of producing said resonator, application to switchable coupled resonator filters.The resonator comprises: at least one piezoelectric layer (30); electrodes (24, 26) on either side of this layer; and at least one electret layer (32) between the electrodes, to apply a permanent electric field to the piezoelectric layer. The intensity of this electric field is determined to shift the resonance frequency of the resonator by a desired value. The piezoelectric layer may contain electrical charges to itself constitute the electret layer.
Abstract:
A process for producing an acoustic device having a phononic crystal structure comprising inclusions produced in a first medium distributed in a matrix of a second medium, to block propagation of acoustic waves within a bandgap frequency band, includes: defining geometric parameters of said inclusions, which have walls contacting said matrix, making at least one non-zero first wall angle, to the normal of the plane of said structure, said geometric parameters including said first wall angle; determining a function relating to variation in frequency position of said bandgap with said wall angle or relating to variation in width of said bandgap with said wall angle; determining said at least first angle, for a selected frequency position and/or selected width of the bandgap, from the function or functions determined beforehand; and producing said inclusions having at least said first wall angle in said matrix formed by said second medium.
Abstract:
An acoustic structure comprising comprises a layer of material having a first Young's modulus called the intrinsic modulus and a first density called the intrinsic density, characterized in that the layer comprises at least one first zone having said first Young's modulus and said first density and at least one second zone buried in the volume of said layer of material and having a second Young's modulus and/or a second density obtained by implanting and/or by diffusing atoms into the volume of said layer.
Abstract:
An acoustic wave bandpass filter comprises at least an input first acoustic wave resonator with an output surface, and an output second acoustic wave resonator with an input surface, said resonators being coupled to each other along a set direction, the input and output surfaces being substantially opposite, and at least one first phononic crystal structure between said input and output resonators and/or a second phonic crystal structure at the periphery of said resonators so as to guide the acoustic waves, generated by said input resonator, toward said output resonator along said set direction, the resonators ensuring an impedance conversion and/or a mode conversion.
Abstract:
A guided acoustic wave resonant device is provided. The device comprises at least two filters (F1, . . . , Fi, . . . , FN), each filter comprising at least two acoustic wave resonators (R11- R12, . . . , Ri1-Ri2, . . . , RN1-RN2), each filter having a useful frequency band (BF1, . . . , BFi, . . . , BFN) centred on a central frequency (f1, . . . , fi, . . . , fN), each resonator comprising at least one suite of inter-digitated upper electrodes exhibiting a periodic structure of period (Λij) and a layer of piezoelectric material, each resonator having a coupling coefficient (k21, k22, . . . , k2n) and a resonant frequency (fr1, . . . , fr2, . . . , fN), wherein at least one of the resonators comprises a differentiation layer (CDfi) making it possible in combination with the period of the inter-digitated electrodes to modify the coupling coefficient of the said resonator, the useful band and the central frequency being determined by the resonant frequencies and the coupling coefficients of the resonators which are adapted so as to have a determined useful bandwidth.