• DocumentCode
    2907339
  • Title

    Discrete apodization in quasi-slanted SAW IDTs

  • Author

    Bausk, Evgeniy ; Taziev, Rinat ; Lee, Andy

  • Author_Institution
    Inst. of Semicond. Phys., Russian Acad. of Sci., Novosibirsk, Russia
  • Volume
    2
  • fYear
    2003
  • fDate
    5-8 Oct. 2003
  • Firstpage
    1758
  • Abstract
    Opportunities of quasi-slanted transducers (QST) can be extended using a discrete apodization (overlap weighting) of electrodes, which doesn´t enlarge SAW diffraction effect because the breaks of electrodes are placed only in the interconnection regions between acoustic channels, so that each channel is unapodized. An algorithm of optimization of the discrete apodization in QSTs is described here. An improvement of SAW filter selectivity due to the discrete apodization of QSTs is demonstrated.
  • Keywords
    acoustic imaging; acoustic wave diffraction; interdigital transducers; surface acoustic wave filters; surface acoustic wave transducers; SAW diffraction effect; SAW filter selectivity; acoustic channels; discrete apodization; interconnection regions; quasislanted SAW IDT; quasislanted transducers; Acoustic diffraction; Acoustic transducers; Apertures; Bandwidth; Electrodes; Frequency response; Passband; Physics; SAW filters; Surface acoustic waves;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Ultrasonics, 2003 IEEE Symposium on
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-7922-5
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ULTSYM.2003.1293252
  • Filename
    1293252