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- the present invention relates generally to surface-acoustic-wave filters having poles, and more particularly to surface-acoustic-wave filters of the resonator type used, for example, in mobile communications equipment.
- SAW filters surface-acoustic-wave filters
- RF filters radio-frequency filters
- a portable telephone set of the code division multiple access (CDMA) type transmits in one frequency band and receives in an adjacent frequency band.
- the set accordingly requires an antenna duplexer with a pair of filters, one filter passing frequencies in the transmitting band and rejecting frequencies in the receiving band, while the other filter performs the opposite function.
- Each filter which must provide low passband insertion loss, steep roll-off between the passband and the adjacent stopband, and high attenuation across the full width of the stopband.
- a general object of the present invention is to improve the frequency characteristics of SAW ladder filters having poles.
- a more specific object is to obtain high stopband attenuation over a wide range of stopband frequencies.
- a further object is to obtain steep roll-off between the passband and stopband.
- a surface-acoustic-wave filter comprises a two-port surface-acoustic-wave resonator filter circuit and a two-port impedance circuit, coupled in parallel.
- the two-port surface-acoustic-wave resonator filter circuit has a phase shifter, at least one series-arm surface-acoustic-wave resonator, and at least one shunt-arm surface-acoustic-wave resonator.
- the two-port impedance circuit has an impedance that creates a pole of attenuation, by making the open-circuit impedance of the surface-acoustic-wave filter equal to the short-circuit impedance.
- a surface-acoustic-wave filter comprises a two-port surface-acoustic-wave resonator filter circuit and a two-port impedance circuit, coupled in series.
- the two-port surface-acoustic-wave resonator filter circuit has two series-arm surface-acoustic-wave resonators and two shunt-arm surface acoustic-wave resonators.
- the two-port impedance circuit has an impedance that creates a pole of attenuation, by making the open-circuit impedance of the surface-acoustic-wave filter equal to the short-circuit impedance.
- the pole of attenuation created by the impedance circuit improves the frequency characteristic of the filter by increasing the stopband attenuation, enabling a high attenuation to be obtained over a wide range of stopband frequencies, with steep roll-off between the passband and stopband.
- FIG. 1 is a perspective drawing of the front-end section of a wireless communication device
- FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram of a first embodiment of the invention, suitable for use as the receiving SAW filter in FIG. 1;
- FIG. 3 shows FIG. 2 redrawn as a pair of two-port circuits coupled in parallel
- FIG. 4 shows FIG. 2 redrawn for the case of open-circuited output terminals
- FIG. 5 shows FIG. 2 redrawn for the case of short-circuited output terminals
- FIG. 6 shows frequency characteristics of the first embodiment for various capacitance values
- FIG. 7 is a schematic diagram of a second embodiment, also suitable for use as the receiving SAW filter in FIG. 1;
- FIG. 8 is a schematic diagram of a conventional filter having the same SAW resonators as in FIG. 7;
- FIG. 9 compares the frequency characteristics of the filters in FIGS. 7 and 8;
- FIG. 10 is a schematic diagram of a third embodiment, suitable for use as the transmitting SAW filter in FIG. 1;
- FIG. 11 shows FIG. 10 redrawn as a pair of two-port circuits coupled in series
- FIG. 12 is simplified drawing of the interdigital transducer patterns in the third embodiment, illustrating the use of a bonding wire as the impedance circuit
- FIG. 13 shows equivalent circuit representations of the SAW resonators in FIG. 10;
- FIG. 14 illustrates the left half of FIG. 13
- FIG. 15 illustrates a conventional filter not having an impedance circuit
- FIG. 16 shows equivalent circuit representations of the SAW resonators in FIG. 15;
- FIG. 17 shows open-circuited and short-circuited frequency characteristics for the conventional filter in FIG. 15;
- FIG. 18 shows open-circuited and short-circuited frequency characteristics for the third embodiment
- FIG. 19 compares frequency characteristics of the filter in FIG. 15 and the third embodiment
- FIG. 20 summarizes the comparison in FIG. 19;
- FIG. 21 is a schematic diagram of a four-stage filter having three shunt-arm SAW resonators and a single inductor;
- FIG. 22 is a schematic diagram of a five-stage filter having three shunt-arm SAW resonators and a single inductor;
- FIG. 23 is a schematic diagram of a fourth embodiment of the invention, also suitable for use as the transmitting SAW filter in FIG. 1;
- FIG. 24 compares frequency characteristics of the filters in FIGS. 22 and 23.
- FIG. 25 is a schematic diagram of a fifth embodiment of the invention, also suitable for use as the transmitting SAW filter in FIG. 1;
- FIGS. 26, 27 , 28 , and 29 illustrate alternative configurations of the two-port impedance circuit in FIG. 3;
- FIGS. 30, 31 , 32 , and 33 illustrate alternative configurations of the two-port impedance circuit in FIG. 11 .
- FIG. 1 shows part of the RF section of a portable CDMA telephone set, comprising an antenna duplexer 1 , low-noise amplifier (LNA) 2 , power amplifier (AMP) 3 , and other circuits (not visible).
- the antenna duplex 1 which is the interface between the amplifiers 2 and 3 and an antenna 4 , comprises a coupling circuit 5 , a receiving (Rx) SAW filter 6 , and a transmitting (Tx) SAW filter 7 .
- the coupling circuit 5 comprises interconnecting lines and other components such as inductors and capacitors, not explicitly shown in the drawing.
- the receiving SAW filter 6 comprises a plurality of SAW resonators having metal-foil interdigital transducers formed on a piezoelectric substrate 8 .
- the transmitting SAW filter 7 has a similar structure, details of which will be shown later. All of these components are mounted on a main substrate 9 , such as a ceramic substrate or glass-epoxy substrate.
- This telephone set transmits in, for example, a frequency band from eight hundred twenty-four megahertz to eight hundred forty-nine megahertz (824 MHz to 849 MHz), and receives in a frequency band from 869 MHz to 894 MHz.
- the transmitting SAW filter 7 preferably has an insertion loss of 1.5 decibels (dB) or less in the transmitting band, and an attenuation of at least 35 dB in the receiving band.
- the receiving SAW filter 6 preferably has an insertion loss of 4 dB or less in the receiving band, and an attenuation of at least 50 dB in the transmitting band.
- the first embodiment of the invention is a SAW filter suitable for use as the receiving filter 6 in FIG. 1 .
- this embodiment of the receiving filter 6 comprises a phase shifter 10 , a pair of series-arm SAW resonators 12 and 14 , a shunt-arm SAW resonator 16 , an inductor 18 , and a capacitor 20 .
- These elements form a two-port circuit, the input port comprising an input terminal 22 and ground or earth (E) terminal 24 , and the output port comprising an output terminal 26 and ground terminal 28 .
- the phase shifter 10 and series-arm SAW resonators 12 and 14 are coupled in series between the input terminal 22 and output terminal 26 .
- the inductor 18 and capacitor 20 are also coupled in series between the input terminal 22 and output terminal 26 , in parallel with the phase shifter 10 and series-arm SAW resonators 12 and 14 .
- the shunt-arm SAW resonator 16 is coupled, on one side, to a node disposed between the two series-arm SAW resonators 12 and 14 , and on the other side to the ground terminals 24 and 28 .
- the phase shifter 10 and saw resonators 12 , 14 , and 16 are formed on a common piezoelectric substrate.
- the phase shifter 10 comprises a stripline with a total length of eleven centimeters (11 cm).
- Each of the two series-arm SAW resonators 12 and 14 comprises an interdigital transducer with one hundred pairs of electrode fingers that mesh over a distance, referred to as an aperture, or fifty micrometers (50 ⁇ m).
- the shunt-arm SAW resonator 16 comprises an interdigital transducer with eighty-six pairs of interdigital fingers and an aperture of 86 ⁇ m.
- the phase shifter 10 has a certain impedance Z P .
- the SAW resonators 12 , 14 , and 16 have respective impedances Z 1 , Z 2 , and Z 3 .
- the inductor 18 comprises a bonding wire with an inductance L O of three nanohenries (3.0 nH).
- the capacitor 20 has a capacitance C O of, for example, 0.1 picofarad (0.1 pF).
- the first embodiment is a two-stage SAW filter.
- the first stage comprises series-arm SAW resonator 12 and shunt-arm SAW resonator 16 .
- the second stage comprises shunt-arm SAW resonator 16 and series-arm SAW resonator 14 .
- each adjacent pair of series- and shunt-arm SAW resonators constitute one stage of the filter.
- this filter circuit can also be described as comprising a pair of two-port circuits coupled in parallel between the input terminal 22 and output terminal 26 , and between the ground terminals 24 and 28 .
- One two-port circuit is a SAW filter circuit 30 comprising the phase shifter 10 and SAW resonators 12 , 14 , and 16 .
- the other two-port circuit is an impedance circuit 32 comprising the inductor 18 and capacitor 20 , and a ground line 34 .
- the inductor 18 and capacitor 20 combine to provide the impedance circuit 32 with an impedance Z A equal to j ⁇ L 0 +1/(j ⁇ C 0 ), where j represents the square root of minus one.
- the two-port description of the impedance circuit 32 is useful in computing the frequency characteristic of the filter.
- the parallel connection for example, means that the admittance matrices of the two-port circuits 30 and 32 combine additively.
- the two-port circuit 32 may have various configurations other than those shown in FIG. 3, some of which will be illustrated later.
- the operation of the circuit in FIG. 2 can be analyzed by calculating the impedance Z O between the input terminal 22 and ground terminal 24 when the output terminal 26 and ground terminal 28 are open-circuited, and the impedance Z S between the input terminal 22 and ground terminal 24 when the output terminal 26 and ground terminal 28 are short-circuited Z O and Z S can also be given in terms of ABCD transfer parameters, Z O being equal to A/C and Z S to B/D. Definitions of the ABCD parameters can be found in, for example, the Electronics Engineer's Handbook edited by Fink et al., published by McGraw-Hill.
- this frequency characteristic has poles at frequencies at which Z O is infinite, at frequencies at which Z S is infinite, and at frequencies at which Z O is equal to Z S .
- the last case is of interest here.
- Z O ( Z A + Z 2 ) ⁇ ( Z P + Z 1 ) Z A + Z P + Z 1 + Z 2 + Z 3 ( 2 )
- Z S has the following value.
- Z S Z A ⁇ Z SS Z A + Z SS ⁇ ⁇
- Z SS Z P + Z 1 + Z 2 ⁇ Z 3 Z 2 + Z 3 ( 4 )
- Z A is much smaller than the impedances Z 1 , Z 2 , and Z 3 of the SAW resonators 12 , 14 , and 16 , so the above equations (2) and (3) can be simplified as follows.
- Z O Z 2 ⁇ ( Z P + Z 1 )
- Z S Z A ( 6 )
- Z O is substantially independent of Z A
- Z S is substantially equal to Z A
- a pole of attenuation can be produced at a desired frequency by selecting Z A so that Z O is equal to Z S at this frequency.
- Z O depends on Z P
- Z S is substantially independent of Z P
- the value of Z P can be selected to adjust Z O without strongly affecting Z S .
- the range of frequencies over which impedance matching between Z O and Z S is achieved can be extended in this way.
- Adjustment of Z P also increases the range of frequencies over which impedance matching between the SAW filter and external circuits is achieved.
- FIG. 6 illustrates the effect of adjusting Z A , more specifically, of adjusting the capacitance C O of the capacitor 20 .
- the horizontal axis represents frequency; the vertical axis represents attenuation in decibels.
- the curve marked ‘a’ was obtained by numerical simulation with C O set to the value 0.1 pF used in the present embodiment.
- C O was set to 0.2 pF for curve ‘b,’ to 0.5 pF for curve ‘c,’ and to zero for curve ‘d.’
- Curve ‘d’ corresponds to the case in which the impedance circuit comprising the inductor 18 and capacitor 20 is not present.
- the impedance circuit comprises an inductor 18 with an impedance L O of 3.0 nH, and a capacitor 20 with a capacitance C O of 0.1 pF.
- the phase shifter 10 is again an 11-cm stripline.
- Each of the series-arm SAW resonators 12 , 14 , and 38 comprises an interdigital transducer with one hundred pairs of electrode fingers and an aperture of 50 ⁇ m.
- the inductor 18 and capacitor 20 are coupled in parallel with the phase shifter 10 and the first pair of series-arm SAW resonators 12 and 14 .
- the second embodiment has four shunt-arm SAW resonators 40 , 42 , 44 , and 46 , which are coupled in a ladder configuration with the series-arm SAW resonators.
- the first and last shunt-arm SAW resonators 40 and 46 each have an interdigital transducer with sixty pairs of electrode fingers and an aperture of 60 ⁇ m.
- the two inner shunt-arm SAW resonators each have an interdigital transducer with eighty-five pairs of electrode fingers and an aperture of 85 ⁇ m.
- the impedance circuit comprising the inductor 18 and capacitor 20 , in parallel with all three series-arm SAW resonators 12 , 14 , and 38 , but the inventors have found that better characteristics are obtained when the impedance circuit is coupled in parallel with just two series-arm SAW resonators.
- FIG. 8 shows a conventional SAW ladder filter obtained by removing the phase shifter 10 , inductor 18 , and capacitor 20 from the second embodiment.
- FIG. 9 compares the frequency characteristic, marked ‘a,’ of the second embodiment with the frequency characteristic, marked ‘b,’ of this conventional SAW ladder filter.
- Both filters have substantially identical characteristics in the passband from 864 MHz to 894 MHz, with an insertion loss of less than four decibels (4 dB).
- the second embodiment satisfies the requirement of an attenuation of at least 50 dB over the full range from 824 MHz to 851 MHz, while the conventional SAW ladder filter does not.
- the third embodiment is a SAW filter suitable for use as the transmitting SAW filter 7 in FIG. 1 .
- this embodiment of the transmitting SAW filter 7 comprises three series-arm SAW resonators 48 , 50 , and 52 , two shunt-arm SAW resonators 54 and 56 , and an inductor 58 . These elements form a two-port circuit with an input terminal 60 and ground terminal 62 on the input side, and an output terminal 64 and ground terminal 66 on the output side.
- Each of the series-arm SAW resonators 48 , 50 and 52 comprises an interdigital transducer with one hundred twenty pairs of electrode fingers and an aperture of 120 ⁇ m.
- Each of the shunt-arm SAW resonators 54 and 56 comprises an interdigital transducer with sixty pairs of electrode fingers and an aperture of 90 ⁇ m.
- the inductor 58 has an inductance of 4.0 nH.
- this filter circuit can be represented as a pair of two-port circuits coupled in series.
- One two-port circuit 68 is a SAW filter comprising the SAW resonators 48 , 50 , 52 , 54 , and 56 .
- the other two-port circuit 70 is an impedance circuit comprising the inductor 58 , providing an impedance Z A .
- the series coupling of these two-port circuits 68 and 70 means that their impedance matrices combine additively.
- the SAW resonators 48 , 50 , 52 , 54 , and 56 in the third embodiment are formed as metal-foil interdigital transducer patterns on a piezoelectric substrate 71 .
- the two shunt-arm SAW resonators 54 and 56 are disposed back-to-back, sharing a common central electrode pattern.
- the inductor 58 is a length of bonding wire that couples this common electrode pattern to an external ground bonding pad 62 . This bonding pad 62 combines the functions of the ground terminals 62 and 66 in FIG. 10 .
- the inductance of the bonding-wire inductor 58 is determined by the point of attachment of the bonding-wire inductor 58 to the SAW resonators 54 and 56 .
- the number of electrode fingers of the interdigital transducers in FIG. 12 has been greatly reduced, to simplify the drawing.
- FIG. 13 shows the SAW resonators 48 , 50 , 52 , 54 , and 56 represented by equivalent lumped-constant circuits.
- Series-arm SAW resonator 48 is represented by an inductance L S1 and a capacitance C S1 coupled in series, paralleled by a capacitance C S10 .
- Shunt-arm SAW resonator 54 is represented by an inductance L P1 and a capacitance C P1 coupled in series, paralleled by a capacitance C P10 .
- the central series-arm SAW resonator 50 is represented by an inductance of 2L S2 and a capacitance of (1 ⁇ 2)C S2 coupled in series paralleled by a capacitance of (1 ⁇ 2)C S20 .
- This circuit is symmetrical, and can be analyzed by considering only the left half, as shown in FIG. 14 .
- the inductor 58 in FIG. 12 becomes an inductor 74 with inductance L O in FIG. 14, coupled between a pair of terminals 80 and 82 .
- the impedance Z O between terminals 60 and 62 in FIG. 14 when terminals 76 , 78 , 80 , and 82 are left open, and the impedance Z S when these terminals are short-circuited, are related to L O and the impedances Z 1 , Z 2 , and Z 3 of resonators 48 , 72 , and 54 by the following equations (7) and (8), in which S is equal to j ⁇ , ⁇ being the angular frequency of the input signal.
- Z O Z 1 + Z 3 + SL o ( 7 )
- Z S Z 1 + Z 2 ⁇ Z 3 Z 2 + Z 3 ( 8 )
- the inductance L O does not appear in the equation (8) for Z S , because L O is short-circuited by the connection of terminal 80 to terminal 82 .
- a pole of attenuation can be produced by making Z O equal to Z S , and this can be done by suitable selection of the inductance L O , since Z O depends on L O , while Z S does not.
- the third embodiment is designed so that this condition is satisfied over a wide range of high frequencies, as will be illustrated below.
- FIG. 15 shows a conventional SAW filter lacking the inductor 58 of the third embodiment.
- FIG. 16 shows the corresponding equivalent lumped-constant circuit representation.
- the circuit constants in FIG. 16 are the same as the corresponding constants in FIG. 13 .
- FIG. 17 Graphs of the open-circuited impedance Z O and short-circuited impedance Z S of this conventional SAW filter are shown in FIG. 17 .
- the horizontal axis indicates frequency in hertz (Hz); the vertical axis indicates impedance in ohms ( ⁇ ).
- Z O and Z S were calculated from equations (7) to (11) with L O set equal to zero. The difference between Z O and Z S in the frequencies above about 875 MHz should be noted, as these frequencies are located in the desired upper stopband of the filter.
- FIG. 18 shows the open-circuited impedance Z O and short-circuited impedance Z S of the third embodiment, calculated from the same equations (7) to (11), with L O set equal to 4.0 nH.
- the horizontal and vertical axes have the same meaning as in FIG. 17 .
- the difference between Z O and Z S in the upper stopband is greatly reduced.
- FIG. 19 compares the frequency characteristic, marked ‘a,’ of the conventional filter in FIG. 15 with the frequency characteristic, marked ‘b,’ of third embodiment.
- the horizontal axis indicates frequency in hertz, while the vertical axis indicates attenuation in decibels.
- both filters satisfy the requirement of an insertion loss not exceeding 1.5 dB at all frequencies from 824 MHz to 849 MHz.
- the third embodiment also satisfies the requirement for an attenuation of at least 35 dB at all frequencies from 869 MHz to 894 MHz, but the conventional filter does not.
- FIG. 20 summarizes the information in FIGS. 17 to 19 in the form of a table.
- the right part of FIG. 20 gives values of the open-circuited impedance Z O and short-circuited impedance Z S at three frequencies near the high end of the upper stopband (889 MHz, 895 MHz, and 901 MHz).
- L O is zero
- the difference between Z O and Z S is ⁇ j0.72 or greater.
- L O is 4.0 nH
- the difference between Z O and Z S is reduced to ⁇ j0.30 or less.
- the left part of FIG. 20 gives impedance values at the two ends of the passband (823 MHz and 849 MHz) and the two ends of the upper stopband (869 MHz and 895 MHz).
- FIG. 21 shows a four-stage SAW filter comprising two series-arm SAW resonators 76 and 78 , three shunt-arm SAW resonators 80 , 82 , and 84 , and a single inductor 86 .
- the inductor 86 is coupled between the ground line E—E and all three shunt-arm SAW resonators 80 , 82 , and 84 .
- Z O can be made equal to Z S at a given frequency by suitable selection of Z A .
- Z A - Z 5 2 ⁇ Z 6 ( Z 4 + Z 5 ) ⁇ ( Z 4 + Z 5 + Z 6 ) ( 15 )
- FIG. 22 shows a non-preferred five-stage SAW filter obtained by adding one more SAW resonator 88 to the series arm in FIG. 21 .
- the part enclosed in the dotted line in FIG. 22 is the same as in FIG. 21 .
- the equations above indicate that less improvement can be expected in this filter design than in a design based on FIG. 11, which will be illustrated in the fourth embodiment below.
- the fourth embodiment is a five-stage SAW filter comprising three series-arm SAW resonators 90 , 92 , and 94 , three shunt-arm SAW resonators 96 , 98 , 100 , and two inductors 102 and 104 .
- Inductor 102 is a bonding wire coupled between the first two shunt-arm SAW resonators 96 and 98 and the ground line E—E.
- These two shunt-arm SAW resonators 96 and 98 are preferably disposed back-to-back, like the SAW resonators 54 and 56 in FIG. 12 .
- Inductor 104 is a bonding wire coupled between the third shunt-arm SAW resonator 100 in FIG. 23 and the ground line.
- Each of the series-arm SAW resonators 90 , 92 , and 94 has an interdigital transducer with one hundred pairs of electrode fingers and an aperture of 120 ⁇ m.
- Each of the shunt-arm SAW resonators 96 , 98 , and 100 has an interdigital transducer with eighty pairs of electrode fingers and an aperture of 90 ⁇ m.
- the inductance of the inductor 102 is 0.1 nH; the inductance of inductor 104 is also 0.1 nH.
- This filter can be considered to consist of three sub-parts: a SAW filter circuit 106 comprising the first two series-arm SAW resonators 90 and 92 and the first two shunt-arm SAW resonators 96 and 98 ; an impedance circuit 108 , comprising inductor 102 , which is coupled series with SAW filter circuit 106 ; and a SAW filter circuit 110 comprising the third series-arm SAW resonator 94 , third shunt-arm SAW resonator 100 , and inductor 104 , SAW filter circuit 106 and impedance circuit 108 combine to form a filter section that is connected in cascade with SAW filter circuit 110 .
- the two SAW filter circuits 106 and 110 combine to form a SAW ladder filter.
- FIG. 24 compares the frequency characteristic marked ‘a,’ of the non-preferred filter in FIG. 22 with the frequency characteristic, marked ‘b,’ of fourth embodiment.
- the inductor 86 in FIG. 22 is assumed to have the same 0.1-nH inductance as the inductors 102 and 104 in FIG. 23 . Both filters meet the requirement for an insertion loss of 1.5 dB or less in the passband from 824 MHz to 849 MHz.
- the filter in FIG. 22, however, does not entirely meet the requirement for an attenuation of at least 35 dB in the stopband from 869 mHz to 894 MHz.
- the fourth embodiment has a steeper roll-off between the passband and stopband, and clears this 35-dB requirement by a wide margin, providing excellent stopband attenuation.
- a fifth embodiment of the invention extends the concept of the third and fourth embodiments to a six-stage SAW filter having four series-arm SAW resonators 112 , 114 , 116 , and 118 , four shunt-arm SAW resonators 120 , 122 , 124 , and 126 , and two inductors 128 and 130 .
- This filter can be divided into two sections 132 and 134 , each similar in design to the section comprising the SAW filter circuit 106 and impedance circuit 108 in FIG. 23 .
- the impedance Z A in each section can be selected to provide high attenuation across a wide range of stopband frequencies.
- the two filter sections 132 and 134 are cascaded, so that their ABCD transfer parameters combine by matrix multiplication.
- the third embodiment can also be described as comprising a two-port SAW filter circuit with two series-arm SAW resonators 48 and 50 and two shunt-arm SAW resonators 54 and 56 , coupled in series with a two-port impedance circuit comprising the inductor 58 , these two circuits forming a first filter section, which is cascaded with a second filter section comprising SAW resonator 52 .
- the impedance circuits employed in the present invention are not limited to the circuits shown in the preceding embodiments.
- the impedance circuit 32 shown in FIG. 3 can be replaced with one of the impedance circuits shown in FIGS. 26, 27 , 28 , and 29 .
- the circuit in FIG. 26 comprises a capacitor 136 .
- the circuit in FIG. 27 comprises an inductor 138 and capacitor 140 coupled in parallel.
- the circuit in FIG. 28 comprises an inductor 142 and capacitor 144 coupled in parallel, both also coupled in series with an inductor 146 .
- the circuit in FIG. 29 comprises an inductor 148 and capacitor 150 coupled in series, paralleled by a capacitor 152 . Similar replacements are possible in the second embodiment.
- the impedance circuit 70 shown in FIG. 11 can be replaced with one of the impedance circuits shown in FIGS. 30, 31 , 32 , and 33 .
- the circuit in FIG. 30 comprises a capacitor 154 coupled in series with an inductor 156 .
- the circuit in FIG. 31 comprises a capacitor 158 and an inductor 160 coupled in parallel.
- the circuit in FIG. 32 comprises a capacitor 162 and an inductor 164 coupled in parallel, both also coupled in series with an inductor 166 .
- the circuit in FIG. 33 comprises a capacitor 168 and an inductor 170 coupled in series, paralleled by a capacitor 172 . Similar replacements are possible in the fourth and fifth embodiments.
- the phase shifter 10 in the first and second embodiments is not limited to a stripline formed on the same piezoelectric substrate as the SAW resonators.
- part or all of the phase shifter 10 may be disposed on the main substrate 9 .
- the phase shifter 10 may comprise both a stripline formed on the piezoelectric substrate 8 and a stripline formed on the main substrate 9 , as part of the coupling circuit 5 . It is advantageous to have at least part of the phase shifter 10 disposed on the main substrate 9 , as modifications to the characteristics of the phase shifter are more easily made on the main substrate 9 than on the piezoelectric substrate 8 .
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