Very Small-Sized Resonator Filter Using Shear Horizontal Wave on Quartz

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By composing interdigital transducers (IDTs) and reflectors consisting of films made of a heavy metal such as Au, Ta or W on an ST cut 90°X propagation (direction perpendicular to X-axis) quartz substrate, the authors realized a new type of shear horizontal (SH) wave. This wave has an excellent temperature characteristic, a large electromechanical coupling factor ($k$), and a large reflection coefficient at reflector electrodes. The square of this electromechanical coupling factor ($k^2=0.28\sim0.34$%) and the reflection coefficient at reflector electrodes are $2.2\sim2.6$ times and $30\sim35$ times, respectively, as large as those of a Rayleigh wave on an ST cut X propagation quartz substrate. The authors applied this technology to filters for the first intermediate frequency (first IF) stage of a global system for mobile communications (GSM) in the nominal center frequency from 200 to 400 MHz. As a result, we succeeded in developing the first IF filter having a low insertion loss, an excellent temperature characteristic (frequency shift: 1 ppm/°C) and a small package size ($3\times3$ mm2), which is as small as a radio frequency (RF) surface acoustic wave (SAW) filter, for the first time.
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2001-05-30