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Jun Tsutsumi

Shogo Inoue

Takashi Matsuda

Masanori Ueda

Masafumi Iwaki

Osamu Ikata

Motoaki Hara

Yoshio Satoh

Takeshi Sakashita

Tokihiro Nishihara

Shinji Taniguchi

Kentaro Nakamura

Tsuyoshi Yokoyama

Hidetaro Nakazawa

Kazuhiro Matsumoto

Yasuhide Iwamoto

Tabito Tanaka

Tsutomu Miyashita

Yoshio Sato

Fumiya Matsukura

Kazuhiro Watanabe

Kazunori Inoue

Osamu Kawachi

Yuki Endo

Masahiko Imai

Yasufumi Kaneda

Go Endo

Motoyuki Tajima

Kenya Hashimoto

Koichi Hatano

Masatsune Yamaguchi

Tatsuya Omori

Hisanori Ehara

Masufumi Iwaki

Satoshi Miyamoto

Junichi Hamasaki

A piezoelectric thin film resonator includes: a substrate; a piezoelectric film located on the substrate and including a penetration hole penetrating therethrough; a lower electrode and an upper electrode facing each other across at least a part of the piezoelectric film; and a protective film covering an upper surface of the piezoelectric film, a side surface of the piezoelectric film, and an inner surface of the penetration hole.

Piezoelectric thin film resonator, filter, and multiplexer

An acoustic wave device includes: a piezoelectric substrate; a comb-shaped electrode located on the piezoelectric substrate; a wiring layer located on the piezoelectric substrate and electrically connected with the comb-shaped electrode; a first insulating film located on the piezoelectric substrate, the first insulating film covering the comb-shaped electrode, having an aperture on the wiring layer, and being thicker than the comb-shaped electrode; a second insulating film covering an upper surface of the first insulating film and at least a part of a side surface of the first insulating film in the aperture and having a higher moisture resistance than the first insulating film; and a pad being in contact with the wiring layer exposed by the aperture.

Acoustic wave device

An acoustic wave device includes: a piezoelectric substrate; a comb-shaped electrode that is located on the piezoelectric substrate and excites an acoustic wave; and a silicon oxide film that is located on the piezoelectric substrate so as to cover the comb-shaped electrode, and has a total concentration of carbon (C), hydrogen (H), nitrogen (N), and fluorine (F) equal to or less than 3.5 atomic %.

Acoustic wave device and method of fabricating the same

An acoustic wave resonator includes: a piezoelectric substrate; and an IDT located on the piezoelectric substrate and including a pair of comb-shaped electrodes facing each other, each of the pair of comb-shaped electrodes including a grating electrode exciting an acoustic wave and a bus bar to which the grating electrode is connected, wherein an anisotropy coefficient in a cross region where the grating electrodes of the pair of comb-shaped electrodes cross each other is positive; an anisotropy coefficient in a gap region located between a tip of the grating electrode of one of the pair of comb-shaped electrodes and the bus bar of the other is less than the anisotropy coefficient in the cross region, and an acoustic velocity of an acoustic wave propagating through the gap region is equal to or less than an acoustic velocity of an acoustic wave propagating through the cross region at an antiresonant frequency.

Acoustic wave resonator, filter, and duplexer

An acoustic wave device includes: a Y-cut X-propagation lithium tantalate substrate having a cut angle of 20&#xb0; or more and 48&#xb0; or less; and a grating electrode that is composed of one or more metal films laminated on the substrate, and excites an acoustic wave, wherein when a density of each metal film in the one or more metal films is represented by &#x3c1;i, a Poisson's ratio of each metal film is represented by Pi, a film thickness of each metal film is represented by hi, a density of Cu is represented by &#x3c1;, a Poisson's ratio of Cu is represented by Pand a pitch is represented by &#x3bb;, a total value of '(hi/&#x3bb;)&#xd7;(&#x3c1;i/&#x3c1;)&#xd7;(Pi/P)' for each metal film with respect to the one or more metal films is more than 0.08.

An acoustic wave resonator includes: a piezoelectric substrate; and a pair of grating electrodes that is formed on the piezoelectric substrate, one of the pair of grating electrodes including a plurality of first electrode fingers having electric potentials equal to each other, another of the pair of grating electrodes including a plurality of second electrode fingers having electric potentials that differ from the electric potentials of the plurality of first electrode fingers and are equal to each other, two second electrode fingers of the plurality of second electrode fingers being located between at least a pair of adjacent first electrode fingers of the plurality of first electrode fingers, Pg differing from &#x3bb;/4 where &#x3bb; represents a wavelength of an acoustic wave excited by the plurality of first electrode fingers and the plurality of second electrode fingers and Pg represents a distance between centers of the two second electrode fingers.

Acoustic wave resonator, filter, and multiplexer

An acoustic wave resonator includes: a piezoelectric substrate; an IDT located on the piezoelectric substrate and including comb-shaped electrodes facing each other, each of the comb-shaped electrodes including: electrode fingers exciting an acoustic wave; and a bus bar to which the electrode fingers are connected; a dielectric film located on the piezoelectric substrate in an overlap region, where the electrode fingers of one of the comb-shaped electrodes and the electrode fingers of the other overlap, so as to cover the electrode fingers; and an additional film located on the dielectric film in the overlap region and having a density greater than that of the dielectric film, and of which a film thickness in edge regions corresponding to both edges of the overlap region in an extension direction of the electrode fingers is greater than a film thickness in a central region sandwiched between the edge regions in the overlap region.

Acoustic wave resonator, filter, multiplexer, and method of fabricating acoustic wave resonator

A resonant circuit includes: a capacitor of which a capacitance is variable; and an acoustic wave resonator to which the capacitor is connected in series and/or in parallel, a capacitance of the acoustic wave resonator being to be changed so that a change in input impedance and/or output impedance is reduced when the capacitance of the capacitor is changed.

Resonant circuit, filter circuit, and acoustic wave resonator

An acoustic wave device includes: an IDT provided on a piezoelectric substrate; and gratings provided on both sides of the IDT, wherein: a slowness surface of an acoustic wave has a concave shape; a duty ratio of electrode fingers of the gratings is larger than that of the electrode fingers of the IDT, or a thickness of the electrode fingers of the gratings is larger than that of the electrode fingers of the IDT, or a thickness of an added film provided on the electrode fingers of the gratings is larger than that of an added film provided on the electrode fingers of the IDT; a pitch of the electrode fingers of the gratings is smaller than that of the electrode fingers of the IDT; and a resonant frequency of the gratings is substantially the same as that of the IDT.

An acoustic wave element includes: a piezoelectric substrate; an IDT (Interdigital Transducer) formed on the piezoelectric substrate; and an end face of the piezoelectric substrate that is formed on at least one end of the IDT in a propagation direction of an acoustic wave; wherein when a wavelength of the acoustic wave which the IDT excites is expressed by '&#x3bb;' and a metallization ratio of the IDT is expressed by 'D', a distance between an inner end of an electrode finger of the IDT nearest to the end face and the end face is equal to or more than 7&#x3bb;/16+D&#xd7;&#x3bb;/4 and equal to or less than 3&#x3bb;/4+D&#xd7;&#x3bb;/4.

Acoustic wave element

A filter includes: one or more series resonators that are connected in series between an input terminal and an output terminal; one or more parallel resonators that are connected in parallel between the input terminal and the output terminal; and a laterally coupled resonator that is connected in parallel with at least one of the one or more series resonators.

Filter and duplexer

A surface acoustic wave device includes: comb electrodes that are provided on a piezoelectric substrate, respectively has a plurality of electrode fingers, a plurality of dummy electrode fingers and a bus bar, edges of the electrode fingers of one of the comb electrodes facing the dummy electrode fingers of the other; and an added film that is provided at least under the bus bar of the comb electrodes and under the electrode fingers and the dummy electrode fingers in a first region and is not provided in a crossing region where the electrode fingers of the one of the comb electrodes and the electrode fingers of the other cross each other, the first region being a region between front edges of the dummy electrodes and edges of the dummy electrodes connected to the bus bar and extending in an alignment direction of the electrode fingers.

Surface acoustic wave device and filter

A surface acoustic wave device includes: a pair of comb-type electrodes that are provided on a piezoelectric substrate and include electrode fingers and dummy electrode fingers, the electrode fingers of one of the pair of comb-type electrodes facing the dummy electrode fingers of the other comb-type electrode; and additional films that are provided to cover gaps between tip ends of the electrode fingers and tip ends of the dummy electrode fingers and to overlap with at least one of first through third groups in which the first and second groups respectively include the electrode fingers and the dummy electrode fingers located at opposite sides of the gaps in a first direction in which the electrode fingers extend, and the third group includes the electrode fingers located at sides of the gaps in a second direction that crosses the first direction.

Surface acoustic wave device and filter with additional covering films

An acoustic wave device includes: a piezoelectric substrate; and an IDT formed on the piezoelectric substrate, wherein an anisotropy coefficient is positive, an overlap region where electrode fingers of the IDT overlap each other includes a center region and an edge region, the electrode fingers in the center and edge regions are continuously formed, the electrode finger in the edge region is inclined with respect to the electrode finger in the center region so that a pitch in a width direction of the electrode finger in the edge region is greater than a pitch in a width direction of the electrode finger in the center region, and an angle between the width direction in the center region and a crystal axis orientation of the piezoelectric substrate is less than an angle between the width direction in the edge region and the crystal axis orientation.

A duplexer includes: a transmit filter that is connected between an antenna terminal and a transmit terminal and has a plurality of acoustic wave resonators; a receive filter that is connected between the antenna terminal and a receive terminal and has a plurality of acoustic wave resonators; and a delay line or a longitudinal coupling type resonator that is connected in parallel with at least one of the plurality of acoustic wave resonators of the transmit filter and the plurality of acoustic wave resonators of the receive filter and has at least two IDTs (Interdigital Transducers).

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