Influence of Structural Parameters on Performance of SAW Resonators Based on 128° YX LiNbO₃ Single Crystal

Abstract

The seeking of resonator with high Q and low insertion loss is attractive for critical sensing scenes based on the surface acoustic wave (SAW). In this work, 128° YX LiNbO3-based SAW resonators were utilized to optimize the output performance through IDT structure parameters. Once the pairs of IDTs, the acoustic aperture, the reflecting grid logarithm, and the gap between IDT and reflector are changed, a better resonance frequency of 224.85 MHz and a high Q of 1364.5 were obtained. All the results demonstrate the structure parameters design is helpful for the performance enhancement with regard to SAW resonators, especially for designing and fabricating high-Q devices.

Keywords

• surface acoustic wave (SAW)
• return loss (RL)
• resonant frequency
• resonance device
• LiNbO₃ single crystal