title: Analysis and suppression of side radiation in leaky SAW resonators.
abstract: This paper discusses side acoustic radiation in leaky surface acoustic wave (LSAW) resonators on rotated Y-cut lithium tantalite substrates. The mechanism behind side radiation, which causes a large insertion loss, is analyzed by using the scalar potential theory. This analysis reveals that side radiation occurs when the guiding condition is not satisfied, and the LSAW most strongly radiates at the frequency in which the LSAW velocities in the grating and busbar regions approximately correspond to each other. Based on these results, we propose a "narrow finger structure," which satisfies the guiding condition and drastically suppresses the side radiation. Experiments show that the resonance Q of the proposed structure drastically improves to over 1000 by suppressing the side radiation, which is three times higher than for a conventional structure. Applying the proposed resonators to the ladder-type SAW filters, ultra-low-loss and steep cut-off characteristics are achieved in the range of 800 MHz and 1.9 GHz.
authors: Media Devices Laboratory, Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd., Akashi, 674-8555 Japan. shogo@jp.fujitsu.com
authors: Shogo
authors: S
authors: Inoue
authors: Jun
authors: J
authors: Tsutsumi
authors: Takashi
authors: T
authors: Matsuda
authors: Masanori
authors: M
authors: Ueda
authors: Osamu
authors: O
authors: Ikata
authors: Yoshio
authors: Y
authors: Satoh