Experimental Research on Fabrication of Interdigital Transducers for Acoustic Surface Waves.

Abstract

The objective of the program was to fabricate a variety of surface wave transducers on various substrates, using a digitally-controlled electron beam to expose the transducer patterns. Transducers were fabrication on lithium tanta late and lithium niobate substrates with finger and space widths varying from 1.6 to 0.6 micrometers, finger lengths from 240 to 400 micrometers, and number of fingers from 8 to 27 per transducer. An overlapping line segment technique was used along with multi-exposures to obtain line smoothness better than 0.04 micrometers. An exposure control with uniform 2.2% gradations was designed and used to obtain specified line widths. Vibration isolation and ambient magnetic noise cancellation permitted electron beam exposures of device patterns to be made in a relatively noisy environment.

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 19, 1975
Accession Number
ADA021482

Entities

People

  • H. K. Liang
  • M. M. Sopira
  • P. R. Malmberg
  • T. W. O'keefe

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Cancellation
  • Electron Beams
  • Electrons
  • Environment
  • Fabrication
  • Lithium
  • Lithium Niobates
  • Micrometers
  • Niobates
  • Piezoceramics
  • Substrates
  • Surface Waves
  • Transducers
  • Vibration
  • Waves

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Acoustics.
  • Microwave Engineering.
  • Systems Analysis and Design

Technology Areas

  • Directed Energy
  • Directed Energy - Lasers
  • Microelectronics
  • Microelectronics - Graphene
  • Microelectronics - Microelectromechanical Systems
  • Space