An embodiment of the acoustically-coupled transformer has first and second stacked
bulk acoustic resonators (SBARs) each having a stacked pair of film bulk acoustic
resonators (FBARs) with an acoustic decoupler between the FBARs. Each FBAR has
opposed planar electrodes with piezoelectric material between the electrodes. A
first electrical circuit connects one FBARs of the first SBAR to one FBAR of the
second SBAR, and a second electrical circuit connects the other FBAR of the first
SBAR to the other FBAR of the second SBAR. The c-axis of the piezoelectric material
of one of the FBARs is opposite in direction to the c-axes of the piezoelectric
materials of the other three FBARs. This arrangement substantially reduces the
amplitude of signal-frequency voltages across the acoustic decouplers and significantly
improves the common mode rejection of the transformer. This arrangement also allows
conductive acoustic decouplers to be used, increasing the available choice of acoustic
decoupler materials.