Abstract:
The present invention relates to surface wave electromechanical transducers. In accordance with the invention, there is provided a surface wave transducer array wherein the radiator elements comprise electrodes of interdigitated comb type whose teeth are curved to follow arcs whose circumferences are disposed in concentric pairs. This transducer array is applicable in particular to the emission of surface-elastic waves, to acoustooptical deflector systems and to frequency-selective transmission systems.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to elastic surface wave electromechanical filters utilising interdigitated transducers. The electromechanical filter in accordance with the invention is made of a piezoelectric substrate carrying on each of its opposite main faces a pair of side-by-side comb type transducers for forming two collateral transmission channels coupled to a balanced-unbalanced electrical transmission device.
Abstract:
An electro-acoustic surface-wave (Rayleigh waves) device comprises a piezoelectric plate equipped with two transducers one at least of which is constituted by two comb-shaped electrodes having interleaved teeth. At least one of the electrodes have teeth of a dissimilar length the envelope of which is the curve representing the Fourier transform of the transfer function of the device when operated as a filter. The device finds application in the fields of radar, telecommunications, data processing, and the like.
Abstract:
To provide an energy-weighted signal in which the amplitude of the secondary lobes in the signal are essentially suppressed, comb-shaped electrodes having interleaved teeth applied to a piezoelectric wafer equipped with two transducers are dimensioned that at least one of the electrodes has teeth of dissimilar length thus inherently producing weighting of the compressed signal. The tips of the comb-shaped electrodes are arranged in accordance with desired mathematical weighting functions, e.g. a Gauss curve, the Taylor approximation of a Dolph-Tchebychev function, or the Hamming function.