Unidirectional SAW transducer for gigahertz frequencies

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 50, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 1404-1406

  Lehtonen, Saku ^a   Plessky, Victor P ^b   Hartmann, Clinton S ^c   Salomaa, Martti M ^a  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^b GVR Trade SA   (Switzerland)

^c RF SAW Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC SURFACE WAVE DEVICES; DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; ELECTRODES; LITHIUM NIOBATE; PHOTOLITHOGRAPHY; ULTRASONIC REFLECTION;

GIGAHERTZ FREQUENCIES; SINGLE PHASE UNIDIRECTIONAL TRANSDUCERS;

ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 0442311089     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2003.1251122     Document Type: Letter

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