Wide bandwidth withdrawal weighted surface acoustic wave filters

Abstract

A surface acoustic wave (SAW) filter consists of two acoustically coupled transducers built on the same piezoelectric film or substrate. The transducers are constructed by depositing a conducting comb structure having interdigitated fingers on the substrate. Spacer elements are placed between gaps of the same polarity within the comb structure. The addition of the spacer elements permit non-zero gap weights of the same sign to follow one another, in contrast to the standard structure which forces these sources to alternate in sign. This added flexibility results in new withdrawal weighted structures that significantly increase the bandwidth over which the rejection band performance is good and also reduces passband ripple. The increase in the accuracy of the withdrawal weighting permissible with these new structures improves filter performance.

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