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Circuit Applications of Tuneable FBARs

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Tuneable Film Bulk Acoustic Wave Resonators

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This chapter looks at the circuit applications of intrinsically and extrinsically tuneable FBARs. VCOs seem to be one of the most attractive circuits for applications of the tuneable FBAR. They benefit both from high Q-factor (much higher than LC tanks based on semiconductor varactors) and tuneability. Perhaps tuneable and switchable filters are the most desired devices. The chapter includes several demonstrators of these types of filters. Some specific applications such as amplifiers, sensors and clocks are also considered.

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  1. Department of Microtechnology and Nanoscience, Chalmers University of Technology, 41296, Gothenburg, Sweden

    Spartak Gevorgian & Andrei Vorobiev

  2. LC IMX STI Station 12, 1015, Lausanne, Switzerland

    Alexander K. Tagantsev

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Gevorgian, S., Tagantsev, A.K., Vorobiev, A. (2013). Circuit Applications of Tuneable FBARs. In: Tuneable Film Bulk Acoustic Wave Resonators. Engineering Materials and Processes. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-4944-6_8

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