Qorvo US, Inc.

Andreas Tag

Robert Aigner

Gernot G Fattinger

Paul Stokes

Yazid Yusuf

Mohammad J Modarres-Zadeh

Fabien Dumont

Disclosed is a Bulk Acoustic Wave (BAW) filter structure with a conductive bridge forming an electrical loop with an electrode for reduced electrical losses. In exemplary aspects disclosed herein, the BAW filter structure includes a transducer with electrodes, a piezoelectric layer between the electrodes, and at least one conductive bridge offset from at least a portion of one of the electrodes by an insulating volume. The conductive bridge forms a first electrical loop between a medial end and a distal end of the electrode. Such a configuration reduces electrical resistance, heat resistance, and/or ohmic losses for improved electrical loss of the BAW filter structure.

Bulk acoustic wave filter structure with conductive bridge forming electrical loop with an electrode

Acoustic filtering circuitry includes an input node, an output node, a signal transmission path, a series acoustic resonator, and a shunt acoustic resonator. The signal transmission path is between the input node and the output node. The series acoustic resonator is coupled between the input node and the output node in the signal transmission path. Further, a temperature coefficient of frequency (TCF) of a parallel resonance frequency of the series acoustic resonator is positive. The shunt acoustic resonator is coupled between the signal transmission path and ground. Further, a TCF of a series resonance frequency of the shunt acoustic resonator is negative. By providing the TCF of the series acoustic resonator and the shunt acoustic resonator in this manner, self-heating of the acoustic filtering circuitry may be significantly reduced, thereby improving the performance of the acoustic filtering circuitry.

Acoustic filtering circuitry

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Altamonte Springs, FL, United States of America

Andreas Tag