Surface Acoustic Wave Filters: With Applications to Electronic Communications and Signal Processing

By Aldo G. S. Ventre

Book Overview

Surface Acoustic Wave Filters gives the fundamental principles and device design techniques for surface acoustic wave filters. It covers the devices in widespread use today: bandpass and pulse compression filters, correlators and non-linear convolvers and resonators. The newest technologies for low bandpass filters are fully covered such as unidirectional transducers, resonators in impedance element filters, resonators in double-mode surface acoustic wave filters and transverse-coupled resonators using waveguides. The book covers the theory of acoustic wave physics, the piezoelectric effect, electrostatics at a surface, effective permittivity, piezoelectric SAW excitation and reception, and the SAW element factor. These are the main requirements for developing quasi-static theory, which gives a basis for the non-reflective transducers in transversal bandpass filters and interdigital pulse compression filters. It is also needed for the reflective transducers used in the newer devices. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0123725372
• ISBN13: 9780123725370
• Release Date: August 2007
• Publisher: Academic Press
• Length: 429 Pages
• Weight: 1.93 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.5" x 9.2"

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