AlN/SiO2/Si3N4/Si(100)-Based CMOS Compatible Surface Acoustic Wave Filter With −12.8-dB Minimum Insertion Loss

A CMOS compatible AlN/SiO
₂
/Si
₃
N
₄
/Si(100) surface acoustic wave (SAW) device has been fabricated and will be compared with standard AlN/SiO
₂
-based devices. The presented filter demonstrates high potential for CMOS integrated high-frequency SAW devices. The filter insertion loss could be improved to -12.8 dB. The device exhibits high crosstalk suppression of -50 dB on a standard Si-substrate (10 Ωcm). X-ray diffraction, (scanning) transmission electron microscopy, and energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy studies correlate the signal quality with c -axis orientation of aluminum nitride films on interdigitated transducer finger electrodes. Finite-element method simulations are in good agreement with the electric measurements and show typical Rayleigh particle displacement.