Microwave Acoustic and Bulk Device Technique Studies.

Abstract

A monolithic parametric signal processor was developed using zinc oxide thin film transducer structures on an epitaxial gallium arsenide substrate. The overall efficiency of the present device is approximately 30dB greater than obtained for a comparable device constructed entirely of lithium niobate, as a result of the increased linearity of the gallium arsenide and the efficient zinc oxide Rayleigh wave transducers. The interaction region is extremely uniform, as demonstrated by the nearly theoretical performance of the function of pulse compression of 13 bit biphase Barker coded waveforms. Efficient interdigital couplers were made for surface acoustic wave devices on silicon by rf sputter depositions of ZnO, a piezo-electric material, on the Si substrate. A monolithic acoustic surface wave convolver was constructed using this technique and an accurate theory of its operation was derived. (Modified author abstract)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 1974
Accession Number
AD0787869

Entities

Organizations

  • Stanford University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acoustic Waves
  • Films
  • Gallium Arsenides
  • Lithium Niobates
  • Materials
  • Piezoceramics
  • Pulse Compression
  • Rayleigh Waves
  • Surface Acoustic Wave Devices
  • Surface Acoustic Waves
  • Surface Waves
  • Thin Films
  • Transducers
  • Waves

Readers

  • Nanofabrication and Microfabrication.
  • Optical Physics and Photonics.
  • Radio communications and signal processing.

Technology Areas

  • Microelectronics
  • Microelectronics - Graphene
  • Microelectronics - Microelectromechanical Systems