Surface wave devices with static electric field
A tapered IDT function is provided in an IDT of a SAW device having fingers substantially parallel to one another by applying a static electric field to a piezoelectric substrate of the SAW device to generate in the substrate a strain which varies across the aperture of the IDT, thereby varying a center frequency of the IDT across the aperture of the IDT. The electric field can be perpendicular to the fingers and created by applying a dc voltage between conductors at least one of which can be tapered or angled, either in the region of the IDT to produce a strain directly or adjacent to the IDT to produce a strain indirectly, or it can be parallel to the fingers, two fields with opposite directions being created at the two sides of the IDT.
Nortel Networks Limited
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Wen Conrad F. Steve A.
Liu Gratton Beaudin