title: Design and properties of STW asynchronous resonators on quartz.
abstract: In a surface transverse wave (STW) asynchronous resonator, grating phase shifters are placed between interdigital transducers and reflectors to obtain the incident and reflected waves in phase, and the resonance frequency is located near the center frequency of the reflectors. In this paper, the scattering matrix method is used for design of such resonators with one dominant longitudinal mode. At a frequency of about 509.5 MHz, insertion loss, and loaded and unloaded quality factors of about 6 dB, 5,300 and 11,000, respectively, were obtained. The measured and calculated parameters of this resonator are in good agreement. Design guidelines and comparison of synchronous and asynchronous resonators are presented. Compared to synchronous resonators, low spurious signals' level, location of the resonance frequency near the center frequency of the reflectors, and simple design method make the asynchronous resonators more attractive for manufacture and practical applications.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Electronic Materials Technology, Wolczynska 133, Warsaw, Poland. waldemar.soluch@itme.edu.pl
authors.forename: Waldemar
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Soluch
mesh_terms: D000162:Acoustics / Q000295:instrumentation*; D003198:Computer Simulation; D017076:Computer-Aided Design; D004867:Equipment Design; D019544:Equipment Failure Analysis; D008956:Models, Chemical; D011791:Quartz / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000528:radiation effects; D014159:Transducers
chemical_list: D011791:Quartz