Title :
Design and Industrialisation of Solidly-Mounted BAW filters
Author :
Lobeek, Jan-Willem ; Smolders, A. Bart
Author_Institution :
Philips Semicond., Nijmegen
Abstract :
This paper discusses the design of high-Q bulk-acoustic-wave filters that are optimised for integration in to front-end-modules (FEM) for 2G/3G cellular applications. In addition, the industrialisation aspects of BAW filters are presented. A novel low-cost process was developed based on standard IC processing which uses a solidly mounted reflector stack of dielectric materials. Experimental results are shown of filters operating at 1.9 GHz. The loss mechanisms that occur in BAW filters which are produced in high-volume are analysed
Keywords :
3G mobile communication; Q-factor; UHF filters; bulk acoustic wave devices; surface acoustic wave filters; 1.9 GHz; 2G cellular radio; 3G cellular radio; bulk-acoustic-wave filters; dielectric materials; front end modules; solidly mounted reflector stack; solidly-mounted BAW filters; Broadband antennas; Costs; Dielectric materials; Dielectric substrates; Passive filters; Production; Q factor; Radio frequency; Resonator filters; Transceivers; Bulk-Acoustic-Wave (BAW) Devices; Front-End-Module; Passive Integration; SBAR;
Conference_Titel :
Microwave Symposium Digest, 2006. IEEE MTT-S International
Conference_Location :
San Francisco, CA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-9541-7
Electronic_ISBN :
0149-645X
DOI :
10.1109/MWSYM.2006.249551
