TY - JOUR
T1 - Theoretical and experimental study of shear mode bulk acoustic wave transformer based on c-axis zigzag ScAlN multilayer for rectenna application
AU - Kinoshita, Sarina
AU - Yanagitani, Takahiko
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by the JST CREST (No. JPMJCR20Q1) and KAKENHI (Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research Nos. 19H02202 and 18K19037).
Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 Author(s).
PY - 2021/4/5
Y1 - 2021/4/5
N2 - The wireless power transfer with rectennas for sensors has attracted much attention in recent years. Although a charge pump is commonly used for voltage transformers in rectennas for RF voltage amplification, it is large, has low efficiency, and has poor impedance matching. Here, we propose small bulk acoustic wave piezoelectric transformers based on c-axis zigzag polarization-inverted ScAlN multilayers. The capacitive impedance ZC of an n-layer c-axis zigzag multilayer resonator is n times larger than that of a single-layer resonator. A piezoelectric transformer can, therefore, be obtained by the combination of a c-axis tilted monolayer and a c-axis zigzag multilayer. Glancing angle-sputtering deposition enabled c-axis highly oriented zigzag multilayer growth. The transformers exhibited an experimental voltage gain approaching +10 dB in the 0.5 GHz range. The experimental results agreed well with the theoretical model calculated using the electromechanical transmission line model, including the effect of the polarization-inverted structure. Furthermore, a simple formula expressing the voltage gain and simple equivalent circuit model for the transformer was derived, which is precise near the resonant frequency. In contrast to the finite element method model, this model described by lumped components makes it possible to simulate easily the entire performance of a rectenna, including an antenna and a rectifier, using a common circuit simulator.
AB - The wireless power transfer with rectennas for sensors has attracted much attention in recent years. Although a charge pump is commonly used for voltage transformers in rectennas for RF voltage amplification, it is large, has low efficiency, and has poor impedance matching. Here, we propose small bulk acoustic wave piezoelectric transformers based on c-axis zigzag polarization-inverted ScAlN multilayers. The capacitive impedance ZC of an n-layer c-axis zigzag multilayer resonator is n times larger than that of a single-layer resonator. A piezoelectric transformer can, therefore, be obtained by the combination of a c-axis tilted monolayer and a c-axis zigzag multilayer. Glancing angle-sputtering deposition enabled c-axis highly oriented zigzag multilayer growth. The transformers exhibited an experimental voltage gain approaching +10 dB in the 0.5 GHz range. The experimental results agreed well with the theoretical model calculated using the electromechanical transmission line model, including the effect of the polarization-inverted structure. Furthermore, a simple formula expressing the voltage gain and simple equivalent circuit model for the transformer was derived, which is precise near the resonant frequency. In contrast to the finite element method model, this model described by lumped components makes it possible to simulate easily the entire performance of a rectenna, including an antenna and a rectifier, using a common circuit simulator.
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U2 - 10.1063/5.0041623
DO - 10.1063/5.0041623
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85103781705
SN - 0003-6951
VL - 118
JO - Applied Physics Letters
JF - Applied Physics Letters
IS - 14
M1 - 142903
ER -