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Article: Taiwanese Inventors Develop Surface Acoustic Wave Device
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- May 22, 2008
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ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- Yu-Tung Huang of Taipei, Taiwan, Chi-Yun Chen of Taoyuan County, Taiwan, Shih-Cheng Chiu of Beidou Town, Taiwan, Ken-Huang Lin of Kaohsiung, Taiwan, and Kuan-Yu Lin of Niaosong Shiang, Taiwan, have developed a surface acoustic wave (SAW) device.
According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Sacrificial electrodes with fractal-shaped are formed on a SAW device, the sacrificial electrodes discharge electro-static charge in the SAW device for protecting the inter-digital transducer from electrostatic break. Moreover, the sacrificial electrodes can control the path and the discharging degree of the electro-static discharge to avoid losing the electrostatic ...