EP4515680A1 - Dispositif a ondes élastiques de surface a electrodes encastrées dans une couche piezoelectrique, conception et fabrication de celui-ci - Google Patents
Dispositif a ondes élastiques de surface a electrodes encastrées dans une couche piezoelectrique, conception et fabrication de celui-ciInfo
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- the field of the invention is that of elastic surface wave devices (SAW devices for Surface Acoustic Wave in English terminology) with composite structures integrating electrodes embedded in a thin layer of piezoelectric material.
- SAW devices for Surface Acoustic Wave in English terminology
- SAW devices Surface elastic wave devices, or SAW devices, are used in many applications, and in particular in electronic applications where they form the central element of filters, oscillators, delay lines or even transformers.
- Piezoelectric materials generate an electrical voltage when they are deformed under the action of a mechanical stress, and, conversely, deform when an electrical voltage is applied to them.
- the mechanical signal propagating in the piezoelectric material has a frequency dependence on the alternating electrical signal, a dependence which is a function of the characteristics of the electrode(s), the properties of the piezoelectric material and other factors such as the shape of the elastic wave device and other structures constituting the device.
- a SAW filter comprises at least one surface elastic wave transducer, potentially surrounded by reflecting mirrors made up of electrodes arranged periodically and satisfying the so-called Bragg condition, forming a resonator by reflection of the waves emitted by the transducer in phase towards the latter .
- the filter can advantageously be composed of a combination of such resonators, it can also have at least one so-called input transducer and at least one so-called output transducer. It can exploit electrical or elastic couplings between resonators or transducers. Its temporal response can be finite (case of classic transverse filters) or infinite (case of resonator filters). In all cases, those skilled in the art designate these structures indiscriminately as SAW filters.
- the geometry and dimensions of the transducers, the types and shapes of the materials used determine the characteristics of the SAW filter such as the coupling and reflection factors, the quality factor Q, the bandwidth, the spurious responses, the suppression of resonances orders higher than the resonance used, or even the temperature dependence of the mode used.
- Patent document WO 2021/053401 discloses a SAW transducer comprising electrodes forming combs interdigitated and having the particularity of being embedded in the piezoelectric layer, as illustrated in Figure 1.
- the acoustic impedance of these electrodes is lower than that of the piezoelectric layer, so as to contain the propagation of a shear mode essentially in the volume of the electrodes by reflection against the walls of the electrodes at a frequency higher than that of the mode.
- fundamental shearing of the piezoelectric layer this mode being designated by “electrode mode”, or “electrode mode” in English terminology.
- the interdigitated comb configuration of the electrodes and the excitation by means of opposite polarities of two adjacent fingers of the combs allows the electrode mode to generate, in the piezoelectric layer, coherent propagative shear waves leading to a resonance phenomenon for an operational elastic wavelength.
- a SAW transducer from patent document WO 2021/053401 makes it possible to use higher frequencies than those used in conventional SAW transducers, usually based on thin layer electrodes located on the surface of the piezoelectric layer and for which the waves elastics have frequencies resulting from the natural modes of the latter.
- mentions of conventional SAW devices or transducers will refer to such transducers, based on thin layer electrodes located on the surface of the piezoelectric layer.
- the resonance frequency f r of the electrode mode is defined by the resonance of the elastic waves in the volumes of the electrodes, which occurs at a higher frequency. higher than those of the natural modes of the piezoelectric layer of conventional devices.
- a first aim of the invention is to provide elastic surface wave devices capable of using an electrode mode and of presenting acceptable performance for practical applications, with in particular spectral purity of the frequency response. acceptable from the point of view of practical applications and conditioned by the attenuation of the fundamental shear mode of the piezoelectric layer by the substrate.
- a second aim of the invention is to provide a method for choosing a substrate suitable for a SAW device comprising electrodes embedded in a piezoelectric layer and intended to operate by excitation of an elastic mode specific to these electrodes.
- a third aim of the invention is to provide a manufacturing method integrating the choice of a suitable substrate in the manufacturing of a SAW device.
- the invention relates to a surface elastic wave device comprising a piezoelectric layer, electrodes embedded in the piezoelectric layer and a substrate supporting the piezoelectric layer and the electrodes, the substrate satisfying the following two conditions:
- an attenuation of an elastic electrode mode in the piezoelectric layer is less than 0.1 dB/;
- a speed ratio between a speed of a volumetric elastic mode of shearing of the substrate and a speed of a fundamental elastic mode of shearing of the piezoelectric layer is smaller than a predetermined value of speed ratio equal to 1, the substrate being chosen from gallium arsenide and a glass having a Young's modulus of between 60 GPa and 180 GPa, a Poisson's ratio of between 0.15 and 0.35, and a density of between 2000 kg/m 3 and 6000 kg/m 3 .
- Such a SAW device with embedded electrodes and intended to operate by excitation of a specific elastic mode of these electrodes can operate satisfactorily if it uses a substrate chosen in such a way that, in combination with a piezoelectric layer and embedded electrodes, the two conditions on the attenuation and the speed ratio defined above are respected, that is to say that the mode of the electrode which propagates is preponderant in relation to the fundamental shear mode of the piezoelectric layer.
- This elastic electrode mode allows access to relatively high working frequencies (for example greater than 3 GHz), and this for devices not requiring manufacturing methods located at the limits of which is currently technically feasible, and whose reliability and robustness are assured.
- a ratio of an attenuation of the fundamental shear mode of the piezoelectric layer to the attenuation of the electrode elastic mode is greater than 10; the electrodes pass entirely through the piezoelectric layer;
- the substrate is made of glass having a Young's modulus of between 60 GPa and 80 GPa, a Poisson's ratio of between 0.15 and 0.25, and a density of between 2100 kg/m 3 and 2400 kg/ m 3 ;
- the substrate is formed of gallium arsenide.
- the invention extends to a method for determining the adaptation of a substrate to a surface elastic wave device comprising a piezoelectric layer, electrodes embedded in the piezoelectric layer and said substrate, the method being implemented in means of a computer system and comprising the step of emitting a signal representative of an adaptation of the substrate to the surface elastic wave device, when:
- an attenuation of an elastic electrode mode in the piezoelectric layer is less than 0.1 dB/
- a speed ratio between a speed of a volumetric elastic mode of shearing of the substrate and a speed of a fundamental elastic mode of shearing of the piezoelectric layer is smaller than a predetermined value of speed ratio equal to 1.
- the speed ratio is smaller than the predetermined speed ratio value.
- the attenuation Attn of the elastic mode of the electrode is defined by the formula Attn where, for an excitation of the electrodes generating a propagative mode of an elastic shear wave, A is the acoustic reflection coefficient per electrode, the log function represents the decimal logarithm such that log(e) ⁇ 0.434 and f h and f b are frequencies associated with a resonance of the elastic shear wave at which an electrical susceptance of the elastic wave device reaches a maximum and a minimum respectively.
- the invention also extends to a method of manufacturing the SAW device with electrodes embedded in the piezoelectric layer, a method comprising said determination method.
- FIG. 1 Figure 1 schematically illustrates in plan view a SAW transducer with electrodes embedded in a piezoelectric layer
- FIG. 2 Figure 2 schematically illustrates the SAW transducer of Figure 1 according to a sectional view of this transducer along the plane passing through the segment indicated by YY' on the plan view and perpendicular thereto
- Figure 3 illustrates a possible geometry of the electrodes of the SAW transducer of Figure 1, used for computer modeling of this transducer
- Figure 4 shows a simulation graph of the electrical admittance of a SAW resonator centered on the resonance of an electrode mode
- Figure 5 shows a simulation graph of the electrical admittance of a SAW transducer showing the effects of a volumetric elastic mode of shearing of the substrate and of a fundamental elastic mode of shearing of the piezoelectric layer;
- Figure 6 illustrates a ladder SAW filter
- Figure 7 shows a theoretical transfer function of a first example of a ladder filter
- Figure 8 shows a theoretical transfer function of a second example of a ladder filter
- Figure 9 shows a substrate evaluation diagram for a SAW device
- FIG. 10 Figure 10 illustrates a device for implementing a method corresponding to the diagram in Figure 9; and [Fig. 11] Figure 11 illustrates a method of manufacturing a SAW device.
- SAW devices surface elastic wave devices
- a first approach consists of reducing the wavelength of the elastic waves used in the devices, the frequency being inversely proportional to this wavelength.
- a second approach to increase the operating frequency of SAW devices consists of increasing the speed of the elastic waves in the device, the frequency being proportional to this speed.
- the solution envisaged in the context of this document is based on the integration of the electrodes in the piezoelectric layer in order to increase the speed of the working mode, that is to say the speed of the elastic wave exploited in the SAW device considered.
- a piezoelectric layer is a layer made up of one or more piezoelectric materials, that is to say a layer of one or more materials having piezoelectric characteristics.
- IDTs Inter-Digitated Transducer in English terminology
- Electrode mode an elastic shear mode mainly confined in each of the electrodes.
- the acoustic impedance of these electrodes is lower than that of the piezoelectric layer.
- a problem to be resolved is that there is no standard or table of material characteristics to which to refer to determine the materials suitable for the manufacture of such a transducer.
- the choice of a substrate is particularly critical, since it conditions the very possibility of using the transducer according to the electrode mode and, beyond that, the performance of the device.
- the inventors of the present invention tested numerous materials as candidates to serve as substrates, and investigated which characteristics could serve as selection criteria.
- the inventors were able to determine characteristics that prove predictive of the suitability of a substrate material for a SAW device intended to implement an electrode mode. Two characteristics have been isolated, making it possible to select a substrate in such a way that a SAW device comprising the selected substrate will actually be able to properly implement an electrode mode.
- the electrode mode propagates predominantly in relation to the fundamental shear mode of the piezoelectric layer, that is to say that the ratio between the attenuation (or coefficient of attenuation) of the fundamental mode of the piezoelectric layer on the attenuation of the electrode mode is preferably greater than 10, more preferably greater than 50, even more preferably greater than 100. Under these conditions, it is possible to exploit a mode d electrode having an attenuation less than or equal to that of a SAW mode in a conventional transducer.
- the SAW devices 100 considered as an example consist of a SAW transducer consisting of a piezoelectric layer 120 of thickness h, a first and a second interdigitated electrodes 150A and 150B, embedded in the piezoelectric layer 120 and of height h corresponding here to the thickness of the piezoelectric layer, and a substrate 130 supporting the piezoelectric layer and the electrodes.
- the electrodes are preferably electrodes which pass entirely through the piezoelectric layer and are of the same thickness as the latter, that is to say they are in direct contact with the substrate 130, or with an intermediate layer interposed between it and the piezoelectric layer, and do not exceed in height the piezoelectric layer 120, as illustrated by Figures 2 and 3, other geometries are acceptable as long as the electrode mode can excite the piezoelectric layer: it it is enough for the electrodes to partially pass through the piezoelectric layer, they could also exceed the piezoelectric layer in height. They could thus completely cross the piezoelectric layer and exceed it in height.
- Non-through electrode In the case of a non-through electrode, electric charges which do not appear in the case where the electrode is through will appear under the electrodes. This means that the overall contribution of the charges from one electrode to the other in the periodic interdigitated network may turn out to be reduced compared to the case where the electrode is through. Consequently, a SAW device provided with through-through electrodes will exhibit stronger, and therefore better, electromechanical coupling than a SAW device provided with non-through-through electrodes. Non-through electrodes are also likely to couple a residue of a fundamental mode which could harm the spectral purity of the frequency response.
- the present embodiment presents the situation of direct contact between the substrate 130 and each of the piezoelectric layer 120 and the electrodes 150A and 150B, it is however entirely possible to have an intermediate layer covering the substrate and interposed between it and each of the piezoelectric layer 120 and the electrodes 150A and 150B, as already mentioned above.
- This intermediate layer may comprise for example a bonding layer used to fix the piezoelectric layer to the substrate, such as a layer of silicon dioxide having a thickness of 10 nm to 400 nm, preferably between 20 nm and 150 nm for example. nm thickness without this being restrictive.
- the pair of electrodes comprises a first electrode 150A and a second electrode 150B each with a lower face in direct contact or not with an upper face 130 up of the substrate and side faces 150i a t in direct contact or not with the piezoelectric layer 120 .
- the electrodes 150A and 150B respectively comprise fingers 152A and 152B extending in the same direction D, so as to form a periodic structure of period p in a direction perpendicular to the direction D, in which the fingers of the two electrodes are placed in alternation, so as to form a pair of interdigitated electrodes or IDTs.
- the elastic wavelength of the mode excited by the transducer is equal to twice the period p, i.e. 2p, the transducer operating under Bragg conditions for this particular wavelength which corresponds to the operational elastic wavelength mentioned upper .
- This wavelength is also understood as the distance separating the central axes of extension of two adjacent fingers of the same electrode, that is to say axes each forming an axis of symmetry of the corresponding finger in view plane, this axis being parallel to the direction D of extension of the fingers.
- Figure 1 The structure described by Figure 1 has been modeled by computer, for example by a finite element calculation method, as illustrated by Figure 3, which shows a period of the model in the x direction parallel to the surface of the substrate and perpendicular in the D direction, only a small part of the substrate being illustrated in the y direction perpendicular to the surface of the substrate, the latter being considered semi-infinite.
- This modeling was used by the inventors to determine by computer simulation the electromechanical characteristics of the SAW devices as a function of the materials used, and thus test the relevance of numerous characteristics in the selection of the material constituting the substrate.
- the inventors have noted that two characteristics make it possible to predict the suitability of a substrate of a given nature for the manufacture of a SAW device intended to use an electrode mode, on the one hand the attenuation of the elastic electrode mode in the substrate, and on the other hand the attenuation of the fundamental shear mode in the piezoelectric layer, parameters to be simulated as a function of the piezoelectric layer and the electrodes.
- a substrate located under the piezoelectric layer can, if it is adapted to the characteristics (natures, geometries) of the embedded electrodes and the piezoelectric layer, improve the confinement and propagation of the electrode mode, but not all materials are suitable to form a substrate allowing the structure illustrated in Figure 1 and modeled as illustrated in Figure 3 to properly exploit an electrode mode, that is to say that the electrode mode has an attenuation less than or equal to to that of the mode used in a SAW device equipped with surface electrodes, for example for the design of filters.
- the electrode mode propagates in the piezoelectric layer and is attenuated there by radiation in the substrate, hence the importance of the latter in the characteristics of the device.
- This attenuation limit value was chosen in such a way that a SAW device designed to operate with an electrode mode and which includes a substrate matched to the characteristics of the electrodes and the piezoelectric layer, which makes it possible to achieve this criterion, has performances at least equivalent to the typical performances of a conventional SAW device based on the exploitation of a mode of the piezoelectric layer by means of surface electrodes, with in addition the possibility of operating at higher frequencies thanks to the operation based on the electrode mode. It should be understood here that an attenuation of an elastic mode of an electrode of a SAW device according to the invention has an attenuation less than or equal to the attenuation of a mode of a piezoelectric layer excited by means of electrodes. of surface.
- the substrates leading, in accordance with given electrodes and a given piezoelectric layer, to an attenuation of the electrode mode in the piezoelectric layer less than or equal to the attenuation limit value of 0.1 dB/X, preferably 0, 05 dB/X, more preferably 0.01 dB/X, are retained in the context of the present invention as suitable for the excitation of the electrode mode, in the sense that the expected performances in terms of attenuation of the mode electrode are at least equivalent to that of a conventional SAW device based on the exploitation of a mode of the piezoelectric layer by means of surface electrodes.
- Figure 4 shows a simulation graph of the electrical admittance of a SAW transducer in linear scales with, as a function of the frequency indicated on the abscissa and extending from 2.36 to 2.37 GHz, a conductance G and the associated susceptance B indicated in Siemens per meter on the ordinate and extending between -IxlO 10 S/m and 2*1O 10 S/m.
- the resonance peak of the conductance G is associated with a minimum and a maximum of the susceptance B at the respective frequencies fh and fb located on either side of the peak.
- Attn The attenuation of the electrode mode in the piezoelectric layer, denoted by Attn hereafter, can be expressed by the equation Eq. 1 next: in which A is the reflection coefficient per electrode, fh and fb are respectively the frequencies of the maximum and the minimum susceptance (imaginary part of the admittance) associated with the SAW device considered, as illustrated in Figure 4.
- Compliance with the first condition ensures that an electrode mode can be effectively excited in a SAW device and propagate under conditions similar to or close to those of an elastic wave excited by a conventional SAW device, designed to operate with a mode of the piezoelectric layer excited by surface electrodes.
- the general response of the device as well as the purity of the frequency response determine its performance for practical applications such as telecommunication signal filtering operations.
- This suppression can be done by attenuation of this mode in the substrate, and can be evaluated using a formula identical to the equation Eq. 1 above, this time applied to the fundamental shear mode of the piezoelectric layer.
- This condition reflects the fact that a substrate adapted to a given piezoelectric layer allows sufficiently strong attenuation of the mode of this piezoelectric layer so that this mode is absorbed by the substrate and does not propagate. in the piezoelectric layer, which would have unacceptable effects on the purity of the frequency response, in particular the presence of a second conductance peak with high coupling.
- the value of 1 dB/ represents a limit value at which we can still have a superposition of modes likely to produce spurious responses.
- this attenuation can be calculated in the same way as the attenuation of the electrode mode.
- a substrate in which this ratio C (Subst) /C (Piezo) is less than 1 propagates the fundamental elastic shear mode of the piezoelectric layer in the volume of the substrate and this absorbs the mode, preventing it from deteriorating the frequency response of the device in question.
- Such a substrate could be used for the manufacture and implementation of the device considered.
- the celerities of the modes can be determined by measurements on one or more test structures on the substrate.
- the celerities can be determined by a finite element calculation method, and more specifically a FEM-BEM method, Finite Element Method - Boundary Element Method in English terminology, modeling in two dimensions a period of a given SAW transducer taking into account takes into account the radiation effects in the substrate, geometry as illustrated in Figure 3.
- a finite element calculation method makes it possible to take into account the embedding of the electrodes in the piezoelectric layer as well as the mass effect of the electrodes.
- the wavelength ⁇ is determined by the geometry of the electrodes of the given SAW transducer and the frequency of the mode considered, this frequency being able to be extracted from the frequency response of this transducer, as illustrated in Figure 5.
- Figure 5 shows, for a given SAW transducer illustrated by Figure 1, a simulation graph of the electrical impedance of a SAW transducer in linear scale on the abscissa and in logarithmic scale on the ordinate with, as a function of the frequency indicated in abscissa and extending from 2.2 to 2.6 GHz, a conductance G and the associated susceptance B indicated in Siemens per meter on the ordinate, the ordinates visible on the graph extending between 100 S/m and IxlO 11 S/ mr.
- the particular signatures of the volume elastic mode of shearing of the substrate and of a fundamental elastic mode of shearing of the piezoelectric layer are indicated respectively by BS and FS on the graph.
- Such a method is preferably implemented by means of a computer system 1000 illustrated in Figure 10, comprising a computer calculation unit 1010 and a computer memory 1020 functionally in communication with the computer calculation unit and storing a database of data storing parameters of geometry and nature of the electrodes, the piezoelectric layer, and the substrate.
- the computer unit 1010 retrieves data from the database 920 including parameters of geometry and nature of the electrodes, the piezoelectric layer, and the substrate.
- the computer unit calculates an attenuation of an elastic mode of the electrode in the piezoelectric layer from the data recovered in step 910.
- the computer unit compares the attenuation calculated in step 920 to a predefined attenuation value.
- the computer unit If the attenuation of the elastic mode of the electrode is greater than or equal to the predefined attenuation value, then the computer unit emits a signal RI rejecting the substrate, the latter not being able to allow the SAW device to implement an electrode mode by acousto-electric excitation.
- the computer unit If the attenuation of the elastic electrode mode is smaller than the predefined attenuation value (situation indicated by “Y”), then the computer unit emits a signal Al of partial acceptance of the substrate, the latter respecting at least minus one of the conditions necessary for its acceptance, which here is that of its ability to allow the SAW device to implement an electrode mode by acousto-electric excitation.
- This predefined attenuation value can be 1 dB/, for the reasons explained above.
- the computer unit calculates a speed ratio between a volumetric elastic mode of shearing of the substrate on a fundamental elastic mode of shearing of the piezoelectric layer, from the data recovered.
- the computer unit compares the speed ratio calculated in step 930 to a predetermined speed ratio value.
- the computer unit emits a signal A2 of partial acceptance of the substrate, the latter respecting at least one conditions necessary for its acceptance, which here is that of its ability to sufficiently attenuate the fundamental shear mode of the piezoelectric layer so that the SAW device considered presents acceptable performance in terms of purity of its frequency response.
- the computer unit If the speed ratio is greater than or equal to the predetermined speed ratio value, then the computer unit emits a signal R2 for rejecting the substrate, the latter not being able to allow the SAW device to operate in a manner acceptable.
- the predetermined speed ratio value may be equal to 1, preferably equal to 0.9 as explained above.
- the computer unit checks whether the two signals A1 and A2 have actually been emitted and, in this case, emits a signal A representative of acceptance of the substrate in the sense that it fulfills the two necessary conditions to be considered capable of forming a SAW device intended to operate by implementing an electrode mode.
- This method of evaluating a substrate makes it possible to choose a substrate to be associated with given electrodes and a piezoelectric layer to obtain a SAW device intended to implement an electrode mode, without having to go through a time-consuming and expensive phase of manufacturing test samples and characterizing them from an electro-acoustic point of view, or at least allows targeting the type of samples to be produced.
- these conditions of acceptance of a substrate apply particularly to cases where the electrodes are made of a relatively light metal, such as aluminum or an aluminum alloy (for example an aluminum alloy). aluminum with 2% copper A1CU2%), and where the piezoelectric layer is formed of lithium tantalate LiTaCb or lithium niobate LiNbCb, according to the geometry described in Figures 1 and 2.
- the method of evaluating a substrate described above can be integrated into a method 1100 of manufacturing a SAW device illustrated by the diagram in Figure 11, and of which the first step 1110 consists of the selection of the substrate for a device with already partially defined characteristics, that is to say for geometry and materials of piezoelectric layers and electrodes already fixed.
- This first step 1110 may consist of the implementation of the method 900 illustrated in Figure 9.
- a piezoelectric layer is formed directly on a substrate selected as being acceptable at the end of step 1110.
- the piezoelectric layer can be obtained separately, then attached to the substrate by molecular bonding.
- the piezoelectric layer is prepared to accommodate the electrodes, for example by etching a predetermined pattern in the thickness of the piezoelectric layer.
- the electrodes are formed so as to be embedded in the piezoelectric layer according to conventional methods.
- a quartz glass substrate or “fused quartz” in English terminology, was considered in association with electrodes of an aluminum alloy with 2% copper A1CU2% and a piezoelectric layer made up of lithium tantalate LiTaCh or lithium niobate LiNbOs, for SAW transducers designed to operate at 4.8 GHz or 2.4 GHz.
- C (Subst) and C (Piezo) respectively indicate the speed of a volumetric elastic mode of shearing of the substrate and the speed of a fundamental elastic mode of shearing of the piezoelectric layer, C (Subst) /C (Piezo) indicates the report of these celerities.
- Attenuation (Elec) and Attenuation (Piezo) respectively indicate the attenuations of an electrode elastic mode in the piezoelectric layer and the fundamental mode of the piezoelectric layer in the substrate.
- quartz glass as a substrate for each of the SAW transducers considered, which the table indicates by a substrate status as "OK”.
- the table thus indicates by (NOK) the violation of the condition on the attenuation of the fundamental mode of the piezoelectric layer in the substrate which must be greater than or equal to 1 dB/ to respect the condition.
- the table also indicates by (NOK) the violation of the condition on the ratios of celerities of a volumetric elastic mode of shearing of the substrate to the celerity of a fundamental elastic mode of shearing of the piezoelectric layer, which must be less than 1 .
- a silicon substrate (100) is considered instead of the quartz glass of the first series, the other parameters remaining the same.
- the ratio between attenuation of the fundamental shear mode and electrode mode is, at least, greater than 10.
- the nature of the electrode determines whether or not the criteria relating to (i) the attenuation of an elastic mode of the electrode in the piezoelectric layer and (ii) are respected. ) the speed ratio between a volumetric elastic mode of shearing of the substrate on a fundamental elastic mode of shearing of the piezoelectric layer indicates that a match between the substrate, the electrodes and the piezoelectric layer is necessary. This adequacy is contained in compliance with the two criteria (i) and (ii) recalled above.
- these criteria make it possible to choose, depending on each other, the materials to be used for the substrate, the electrodes and the piezoelectric layer of a surface elastic wave device based on the excitation of an electrode mode in a manner such that it presents a sufficiently pure spectral response to respond to an envisaged application. Furthermore, it should be noted that the phenomena implemented in order to attenuate the fundamental shear mode of the piezoelectric layer do not in any way influence the electrode mode.
- Figure 7 illustrates the theoretical transfer function of such a filter, formed of resonators designed to operate at 4.8 GHz and comprising a quartz glass substrate provided with a piezoelectric layer of LiTaCh and A1CU 2 alloy electrodes %.
- quartz glass is a material considered acceptable for forming the substrate.
- the fundamental shear mode signature of the piezoelectric layer appears at around 2.4 GHz and increases the rejection to ⁇ 34 dB.
- a second application example repeats application example 1, with the difference except that the substrate of the resonators is formed of AT cut quartz.
- AT cut quartz is not considered acceptable to form the substrate, as the attenuation of the fundamental shear mode of the piezoelectric layer in the substrate is insufficient.
- Figure 8 illustrates the theoretical transfer function of such a filter.
- the signature of the fundamental shear mode of the piezoelectric layer appears at around 2.4 GHz and increases the rejection to almost 0 dB.
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