A digital dispersive matching network for SAW devices in chirp transform spectrometers

2006 ◽  
Vol 54 (4) ◽  
pp. 1415-1424 ◽  
Author(s):  
G.L. Villanueva ◽  
P. Hartogh ◽  
L.M. Reindl
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Author(s):  
Kemining W. Yeh ◽  
Richard S. Muller ◽  
Wei-Kuo Wu ◽  
Jack Washburn

Considerable and continuing interest has been shown in the thin film transducer fabrication for surface acoustic waves (SAW) in the past few years. Due to the high degree of miniaturization, compatibility with silicon integrated circuit technology, simplicity and ease of design, this new technology has played an important role in the design of new devices for communications and signal processing. Among the commonly used piezoelectric thin films, ZnO generally yields superior electromechanical properties and is expected to play a leading role in the development of SAW devices.


IEEE Access ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 1-1
Author(s):  
Jesus De Mingo ◽  
Pedro Luis Carro ◽  
Paloma Garcia-Ducar ◽  
Antonio Valdovinos

Author(s):  
Leonardo Zappelli

AbstractNowadays, the design of dividers is based on electromagnetic software that optimizes some geometric parameters to obtain the required performance. The choice of the geometry of the discontinuities contained in the divider and of the optimization initial point is quite critical to satisfy the divider requirements. In the last years, it is quite rare to find in the literature a theoretical approach helping the designers in the choice of the divider geometry. Helpful suggestion can derive by the analysis of the electric field in a trial divider that satisfies power division among the output ports in a thin band. In fact, the electric field null can be filled with metallic septa that ensure the same behavior at any frequency. The optimization of the septa position/form with numerical electromagnetic software permits to obtain divider with large bandwidth. A further analysis of the electric field null in the divider permits to add lateral metallic septa that further enlarge the transmission band. Finally, the design of an input matching network increases the transmitted power to the desired value.


Author(s):  
Xinfang Liu ◽  
Xiushan Nie ◽  
Junya Teng ◽  
Li Lian ◽  
Yilong Yin

Moment localization in videos using natural language refers to finding the most relevant segment from videos given a natural language query. Most of the existing methods require video segment candidates for further matching with the query, which leads to extra computational costs, and they may also not locate the relevant moments under any length evaluated. To address these issues, we present a lightweight single-shot semantic matching network (SSMN) to avoid the complex computations required to match the query and the segment candidates, and the proposed SSMN can locate moments of any length theoretically. Using the proposed SSMN, video features are first uniformly sampled to a fixed number, while the query sentence features are generated and enhanced by GloVe, long-term short memory (LSTM), and soft-attention modules. Subsequently, the video features and sentence features are fed to an enhanced cross-modal attention model to mine the semantic relationships between vision and language. Finally, a score predictor and a location predictor are designed to locate the start and stop indexes of the query moment. We evaluate the proposed method on two benchmark datasets and the experimental results demonstrate that SSMN outperforms state-of-the-art methods in both precision and efficiency.


Micromachines ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 303
Author(s):  
Giovanni Gugliandolo ◽  
Zlatica Marinković ◽  
Giuseppe Campobello ◽  
Giovanni Crupi ◽  
Nicola Donato

Nowadays, surface acoustic wave (SAW) resonators are attracting growing attention, owing to their widespread applications in various engineering fields, such as electronic, telecommunication, automotive, chemical, and biomedical engineering. A thorough assessment of SAW performance is a key task for bridging the gap between commercial SAW devices and practical applications. To contribute to the accomplishment of this crucial task, the present paper reports the findings of a new comparative study that is based on the performance evaluation of different commercial SAW resonators by using scattering (S-) parameter measurements coupled with a Lorentzian fitting and an accurate modelling technique for the straightforward extraction of a lumped-element equivalent-circuit representation. The developed investigation thus provides ease and reliability when choosing the appropriate commercial device, depending on the requirements and constraints of the given sensing application. This paper deals with the performance evaluation of commercial surface acoustic wave (SAW) resonators by means of scattering (S-) parameter measurements and an equivalent-circuit model extracted using a reliable modeling procedure. The studied devices are four TO-39 packaged two-port resonators with different nominal operating frequencies: 418.05, 423.22, 433.92, and 915 MHz. The S-parameter characterization was performed locally around the resonant frequencies of the tested SAW resonators by using an 8753ES Agilent vector network analyzer (VNA) and a home-made calibration kit. The reported measurement-based study has allowed for the development of a comprehensive and detailed comparative analysis of the performance of the investigated SAW devices. The characterization and modelling procedures are fully automated with a user-friendly graphical user interface (GUI) developed in the Python environment, thereby making the experimental analysis faster and more efficient.


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