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Design and Characterization Methodology for Efficient Wide Range Tunable MEMS Filters
Published on: February 4, 2018
Acoustically coupled thickness-mode AIN-on-Si band-pass filters--part II: simulation and analysis
Vikram A Thakar1, Wanling Pan, Farrokh Ayazi
1Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA. thakar@umich.edu
Abstract:
In this, the second of two papers, we present numerical simulations and comprehensive analysis of acoustically coupled thickness-mode AlN-on-Si filters. We simulate the scattering parameters of such acoustically coupled filters using commercially available finite element analysis software and compare the simulation results with a set of measurements. The simulations are in good agreement with the measurements, allowing the optimization of filter characteristics. We analyze the filter response under varying geometric parameters and demonstrate that variations in the top electrode geometry allow the design of low-loss filters (insertion loss <5 dB) with percentage bandwidth up to about 1% and ripple less than 1 dB.
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