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

This book 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. * A thorough revision of a classic on surface acoustic wave filters first published in 1985 and still in print * Uniquely combines easy -to -understand principles with practical design techniques for all the devices in widespread use today * Complete coverage of all the latest devices which are key to mobile phones, TVs and radar systems * Includes a new foreword by Sir Eric Albert Ash 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. A thorough revision of a classic on surface acoustic wave filters first published in 1985 and still in print Uniquely combines easy-to-understand principles with practical design techniques for all the devices in widespread use today Complete coverage of all the latest devices which are key to mobile phones, TVs and radar systems Includes a new foreword by Sir Eric Albert Ash "Now thoroughly updated since it was first published in 1985, this new edition gives the fundamental principles and device design techniques for surface acoustic wave filters. All the devices in widespread use today are covered: bandpass and pulse compression filters, correlators and non-linear convolvers and resonators. The newest technologies for low-loss bandpass filtering are given full treatment, including unidirectional transducers and the use of resonators in impedance element filters, longitudinally-coupled resonator filters and transversely-coupled resonator filters, the last making use of waveguiding effects."--Jacket