Optimization of broadband withdrawal weighted interdigital transducers for high selective SAW filters

Abstract

The problem under discussion is the design of highly selective broadband surface acoustic wave (SAW) interdigital transducers (IDT) with uniform electrodes. In most SAW filters, such transducers are used with apodized IDTs or instead of them. The proposed optimization algorithms are intended for improvement of IDT selectivity by means of a withdrawal weighting (WW) technique. Unlike the familiar methods of WW transducer optimization, these algorithms choose the best IDT structure on the basis of how well it meets the specifications, not in the time but in frequency domain directly. This approach is more effective for broadband WW transducers. A number of SAW filters have been designed using the described algorithms. Their experimental characteristics follow: bandwidths of 0.5 to 15%, stopband rejection of 40 to 50 dB, 3 dB/40 dB shape factors of 1.07 to 1.3.