Monolithic above-IC resonator technology for integrated architectures in mobile and wireless communication |
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| Authors: | Dubois M-A Carpentier J-F Vincent P Billard C Parat G Muller C Ancey P Conti P |
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| Affiliation: | Swiss Center for Electron. & Microtechnol., Neuchatel, Switzerland; |
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| Abstract: | This paper demonstrates the feasibility of an above-IC bulk acoustic wave technology for wireless applications. A double-lattice bulk acoustic wave (BAW) filter with balanced input and output has been designed and integrated as a post-process directly above 0.25 /spl mu/m BiCMOS wafers comprising RF circuits. This filter, featuring moderate insertion loss of -3dB and extreme out-of-band rejection (>-50 dB) is used in a simplified RF front-end receiver for the WCDMA standard, as well as in a new type of filtering LNA comprising two broadband amplifiers and one BAW filter. |
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