Sawtek, Inc.

Triquint, Inc.

Kamran S Cheema

Benjamin P Abbott

Joshua J Caron

Mei Yuin Foo

Aytac Aydin

A miniaturized SAW duplexer includes SAW filters carried on a monolithic piezoelectric chip that is mounted inside a multi-layered ceramic package. A phase matching stripline is embedded diagonally and between two ground layers of the multi-layered ceramic package and is positioned between a wall of vias for significantly minimizing coupling between transmitted and received filters by providing an improved ground shielding of the phase matching stripline. Coupling within the same filter and coupling between the SAW filters are suppressed and thus provide enhanced isolation performance. for the SAW duplexer.

Surface acoustic wave duplexer having enhanced isolation performance

A longitudinally coupled leaky surface acoustic wave (LSAW) resonator filter has a wide bandwidth, low insertion loss and return loss characteristics, and high power handling capability. The LSAW resonator filter includes a plurality of longitudinally coupled LSAW resonator tracks disposed upon a piezoelectric substrate and connected in series. The resonator tracks each include reflective gratings and interdigital transducers (IDTs) disposed end-to-end. Acoustic resonant cavities are formed between each IDT and its neighboring IDTs or gratings by chirping the fingers of the IDT in the vicinity of the cavities. Phase discontinuity is eliminated; reflective bulk acoustic wave scattering is reduced; and improved insertion loss and power handling capability are achieved.

Longitudinally coupled leaky surface acoustic wave resonator filter

A hybrid leaky surface acoustic wave (LSAW) resonator filter has a wide bandwidth, low insertion loss and return loss, and excellent rejection of frequencies outside the passband, and includes one or more longitudinally coupled LSAW resonator filter tracks with chirp-type resonant cavities, reflective gratings, and a plurality of interdigital transducers (IDTs) disposed end-to-end therebetween. An acoustic resonant cavity is formed between each of the IDTs and its neighboring IDTs or gratings by chirping the fingers of the IDTs in the vicinity of the cavity. A one or more LSAW impedance element filters are disposed upon the same substrate and connected in series and/or shunt with the longitudinally coupled LSAW resonator tracks. The frequencies of the LSAW impedance-element filters are chosen such that their combination with the longitudinally coupled LSAW resonator filter tracks results in the formation of deep nulls in the overall transfer function at frequencies just outside of the passband.

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Apopka, FL, United States of America

Kamran S Cheema