Centre National De La Recherche Scientifique

Stmicroelectronics S.a.

Alcatel

Exens Solutions

Jean-Marie Pham

Eric Kerherve

Didier Belot

Alexandre Augusto Shirakawa

Pierre Jary

Andreia Cathelin

Yannick Latouche

Serge Vigneron

Andrea Cathelin

Pierre Jarry

Nicolas Boutheiller

Anthony Ghiotto

Aurélie Verger

Issam Marah

A filter with coupled resonator having a substrate; an acoustic mirror intended to support acoustic resonators, and to isolate these resonators from the substrate; a first structure with an upper resonator and a lower resonator coupled to one another through at least one layer of acoustic coupling; a second structure with an upper resonator and a lower resonator coupled to one another through at least one layer of acoustic coupling; the lower resonators of the first and second structure having the same electrodes. The first and second structures are connected via a fifth resonator for which electrodes and the piezoelectric layer of the lower resonators are of the first and second structure.

Filtering circuit with coupled acoustic resonators

A Lamb wave resonator includes a piezoelectric layer, and a first electrode against a first face of the piezoelectric layer. The first electrode includes fingers and a contact arm, with each finger including a first side in contact with the contact arm and two other sides parallel to one another. Portions of the piezoelectric layer are at least partially etched between the two fingers to form a recess. The fingers are spaced apart from one another by a distance W calculated according to the following equation: 

Lamb wave resonator

The invention relates to a quadruple mode microwave filter having coupled cavities with a plurality of transmission zeros, said filter comprising at least one rectangular parallelepiped-shaped quadruple mode cavity, at least two rectangular irises, and two input/output waveguides. Tuning and coupling of the filter are obtained exclusively by the dimensions and mutual disposition of the at least one resonant cavity and the irises, without any screw or other tuning mechanism. All the faces of the cavities and the irises are either parallel or perpendicular to each other. In a preferred embodiment the irises are offcentered along the two transverse axes. According to one advantageous feature, the input mode and the output mode are the same, preferably the TE 10 fundamental mode.

Waveguide quardruple mode microwave filter having zero transmission

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Jean-Marie Pham