New Structure of SAW Resonator Filters on 64$^{\circ}$YX LiNbO3

The double mode SAW resonator filters have the serious shortcoming that out-of-band rejection above the passband is quite poor. Hence a new structure of the double mode filter is designed with the COM (Coupling Of MOdes) theory with better out-of-band rejection characteristics while keeping all the beauties of the conventional type. The second goal of the design is to reduce the planar size of the structure so that mass productivity of low frequency devices can be improved. For those purposes, several IDT's and relfector gratings are added to or subtracted from the conventional structure so that the modification can lead to better overall performance as a filter. As results of the investigation, several new double mode SAW resonator filter structures are developed. A new structure shows 10dB more out-of-band rejection that the conventional type with 25% reduced device size. Good agreement is demonstrated between the analytical results and experimental results for an illustrative 325MHz four pole resonator filter on 64°YX LiNbO3.