Investigation of phononic crystal reflective gratings for surface acoustic waves

Jia Hong Sun, Tsung Tsong Wu

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Abstract

Surface acoustic wave (SAW) devices are widely used as commercial products today. To improve their performance, hundreds of metal gratings are usually employed to reflect SAWs. In the last decade, phononic crystal (PC) attracted much attention for its special acoustic properties such as anisotropic propagation and band gaps. PC with tens of lattice periods can stop SAW within the band gap frequency ranges efficiently. Thus PC was proposed to be reflective gratings instead of metal strips to reduce the space-consuming of SAW devices. In this study, modified air/silicon PC structures with finite-depth cylindrical holes and tapered radius distribution were used to design high performance reflective gratings. SAW encountering various PCs was analyzed systematically to investigate the mechanism and optimize PC reflective gratings. With high efficient PC gratings, a resonant cavity for SAW was designed accordingly and the numerical analysis showed significant improvement. The maximum amplitude inside the cavity is five times larger than the peak inside the cavity defined by normal PC gratings.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2012 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium, IUS 2012
Pages1758-1761
Number of pages4
DOIs
StatePublished - 2012
Event2012 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium, IUS 2012 - Dresden, Germany
Duration: 07 10 201210 10 2012

Publication series

NameIEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium, IUS
ISSN (Print)1948-5719
ISSN (Electronic)1948-5727

Conference

Conference2012 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium, IUS 2012
Country/TerritoryGermany
CityDresden
Period07/10/1210/10/12

Keywords

  • band gaps
  • grating
  • phononic crystals
  • surface acoustic wave

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