Piezoelectric Filter with Tunable Gain
Tech ID: 23595 / UC Case 2014-057-0
Patent Status
| Country | Type | Number | Dated | Case |
| United States Of America | Issued Patent | 10,050,602 | 08/14/2018 | 2014-057 |
Brief Description
| There is a long-standing problem of how to switch piezoelectric filters when used in switchable filter banks -- such as needed in RF channel-selection. To address this problem, researchers at UC Berkeley have developed a method and structure for a piezoelectric resonator with tunable transfer function -- i.e. tunable gain. This Berkeley resonator's gain is tunable to many values -- including values that are low enough to consider the device to be "off" relative to the background signal. Accordingly, this approach enables on/off switching of piezoelectric resonators; and it thereby obviates the need for separate low loss switches, which otherwise would be needed in series with piezoelectric resonators to switch them on and off -- adding insertion loss and raising system gain. In addition, this ability to adjust filter gain makes it possible for the resonator to control low power gain in a receiver front-end. | |
Contact
- Michael Cohen
- mcohen@berkeley.edu
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Inventors
- Nguyen, Clark Tu-Cuong
Other Information
Keywords
wireless, sensors, handsets
