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Lead Engineer @ HARMAN India | Master of Technology in VLSI Design

#Filters #SAW #RF #ECE #RFdesign #BPF #Microwave SAW Filters Made of peizoelectric crystal, a surface acoustic wave (SAW) filter is a tiny, passive device. A band-pass filter is what most SAW filters are. Imagine a thin piezo-electric crystal that is rectangular in shape. It has a flat top surface. When an electric field is applied, the crystal grows and shrinks. A voltage that corresponds to the frequency and amplitude of the shiver develops across the surfaces of the crystal as it shakes. When the right frequency sinusoidal voltage is applied to a crystal with electrodes placed on both the top and bottom surfaces, the crystal will resonate. This resonance is used by crystal oscillators to provide a frequency that is precisely equal to the crystal's size and flatness. A SAW filter does not use bulk resonance of a crystal. It uses surface acoustic waves. Instead of electrodes on opposite faces of a crystal, the SAW filter has two interlocking combs of electrodes on one end of the crystal surface and another two such combs at the opposite end, but on the same crystal surface. We connect our input across these combs, as shown in the figure attached. The combs set up electrical fields along the surface of the crystal, instead of within the bulk of the crystal. The electric fields cause the surface of the crystal to expand and contract. If we apply a sinusoidal voltage across the input electrodes of just the right frequency, we will create a surface wave that propagates across the crystal, where it creates a voltage across the output electrodes, which are also interlocking combs. We can clearly see that only frequencies with a whole number of wavelengths between the teeth of each comb will be reinforced as they propagate across the comb fingers. The result is a filter: only frequencies that match the combs at both ends will be transformed from electrical signals into surface wave signals and back to electrical signals again.

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Avik Ghosh

learning verilog || FPGA|| SoC design flow||Vivado||Vitis ||Xilinix|| interested in VLSI and Embeded System.M.tech in Intelligent automation and Robotics J.U'27.

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Very informative sir...

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