Coupled BAW/SAW Resonators Using AlN/Mo/Si and AlN/Mo/GaN Layered Structures

Autor: Mina Rais-Zadeh, Afzaal Qamar
Rok vydání: 2019
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Zdroj: IEEE Electron Device Letters. 40:321-324
ISSN: 1558-0563
0741-3106
DOI: 10.1109/led.2018.2890755
Popis: We demonstrate coupled bulk and surface acoustic wave (BAW/SAW) resonators with significantly improved coupling efficiency as compared to SAW only devices. Two sets of stacks are investigated: one uses a thin film piezoelectric material with a bottom electrode on GaN substrate (i.e., AlN/Mo/GaN) and another includes a piezoelectric thin film with bottom metal on a Si substrate (i.e., AlN/Mo/Si). A vibrating BAW transducer induces a SAW in the substrate and between two sets of interdigitated transducers improving the coupling efficiency by a factor of ${\geq }\, \mathsf {8}{x}$ as compared to the conventional SAW. The performance of the coupled BAW/SAW resonators using each of the Si and GaN substrates is compared using FEM analysis. By using FEM, coupling efficiency of the hybrid BAW/SAW with AlN/Mo/Si stack is 2.4%, whereas it is 3.2% for the SAW using AlN/Mo/GaN stack.
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