Abstract: Hybrid filters and more particularly filters having acoustic wave resonators (AWRs) and lumped component (LC) resonators and packages therefor are described. In an example, a packaged filter includes a package substrate, the package substrate having a first side and a second side, the second side opposite the first side. A first acoustic wave resonator (AWR) device is coupled to the package substrate, the first AWR device comprising a resonator. A plurality of inductors is in the package substrate.

Abstract: An acoustic resonator is fabricated by forming a patterned first photoresist mask on a piezoelectric plate at locations of a desired interdigital transducer (IDT) pattern. An etch-stop layer is then deposited on the plate and first photoresist mask. The first photoresist mask is removed to remove parts of the etch-stop and expose the plate. An IDT conductor material is deposited on the etch stop and the exposed plate. A patterned second photoresist mask is then formed on the conductor material at locations of the IDT pattern. The conductor material is then etched over and to the etch-stop to form the IDT pattern which has interleaved fingers on a diaphragm to span a substrate cavity. A portion of the plate and the etch-stop form the diaphragm. The etch-stop and photoresist mask are impervious to this etch. The second photoresist mask is removed to leave the IDT pattern.

Abstract: Apparatus comprising a first layer of electrically conductive material, a second layer of electrically conductive material, and at least one dielectric layer, which comprises a solid dielectric material, arranged between said first layer and said second layer, wherein at least one distributed resonator structure comprising a plurality of resonator posts is arranged in said at least one dielectric layer.

Abstract: A bulk-acoustic wave resonator includes: a substrate; a first electrode disposed on the substrate; a piezoelectric layer disposed to cover at least a portion of the first electrode; a second electrode disposed to cover at least a portion of the piezoelectric layer; a metal pad connected to the first electrode and the second electrode; and a connection member connected an upper surface of the metal pad. A lower end portion of the connection member includes a tapered portion decreasing in a diameter in a direction toward a lower end of the connection member, and an angle between an inclined surface of the tapered portion and the upper surface of the metal pad is 45° to 80°.

Abstract: An acoustic resonator device includes a substrate and a piezoelectric plate. A first portion of the piezoelectric plate is attached to the substrate. A second portion of the piezoelectric forms a diaphragm suspended over a cavity in the substrate. An interdigital transducer (IDT) is formed on a surface of the piezoelectric plate, the IDT including first and second busbars disposed on the first portion and interleaved IDT fingers disposed on the diaphragm. A plurality of tethers support the diaphragm over the cavity, each tether providing an electrical connection between a corresponding one of the interleaved IDT fingers and one of the first and second busbars.

Abstract: An acoustic resonator device includes a substrate and a piezoelectric plate. A first portion of the piezoelectric plate is on the substrate. A second portion of the piezoelectric forms a diaphragm suspended over a cavity in the substrate. An interdigital transducer (IDT) is on a surface of the piezoelectric plate, the IDT including first and second busbars on the first portion and interleaved IDT fingers on the diaphragm. A plurality of tethers support the diaphragm over the cavity, each tether providing an electrical connection between a corresponding one of the interleaved IDT fingers and one of the first and second busbars.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a linkage mechanism for a phase shifter assembly, comprising a rotation device having a rotation shaft fixed to a substrate of the phase shifter assembly and a rotation member configured to rotate about said rotation shaft; a first drive member which can be operatively engaged to the rotation member such that rotation of the rotation member can cause movement of the first drive member; a second drive member disposed on and moving together with the rotation member; and a translation device including a translation member which can be operatively engaged to the second drive member such that movement of the second drive member can cause movement of the translation member, wherein the rotation device and the translation device are configured to move in association with each other during operation of the phase shifter assembly. The present disclosure also relates to a phase shifter assembly including the above-mentioned linkage mechanism.

Abstract: Provided is an element that can reduce a parasitic oscillation.

Abstract: An orthomode junction for separating and/or combining orthogonally-polarized radiofrequency wave signals, comprises a body which has a main cavity forming a main waveguide, which has a blind end, and auxiliary cavities forming auxiliary waveguides, which communicate laterally with the main cavity in the vicinity of the blind end thereof, and a deflection insert situated at the blind end of the main cavity and facing the auxiliary cavities, the deflection insert having different shapes on the side of the auxiliary cavities respectively.

Abstract: A resonator system is provided in which a combined overtone resonator device is excited with a two-dimensional mode of mechanical vibration in a cross sectional plane of a piezoelectric plate in response to an alternating voltage applied through an interdigitated electrode. The cross sectional plane extends along the width direction and the thickness direction, and the two-dimensional mode of mechanical vibration is a two-dimensional combined overtone mode of second and third order asymmetrical Lamb-wave overtones.

Abstract: A switching circuit is provided. The switching circuit includes at least one Surface Acoustic Wave (SAW) filter, a Single-Pole n Throw (SPnT) switch connected to an input port of each of the at least one SAW filter, and a Dual-Pole n Throw (DPnT) switch connected to an output port of each of the at least one SAW filter.

Abstract: An acoustic wave filter device includes a piezoelectric layer, a high-acoustic-velocity member, a low-acoustic-velocity film between the high-acoustic-velocity member and the piezoelectric layer, and first and second IDT electrodes on the piezoelectric layer to define acoustic wave resonators. An acoustic wave resonator of a series-arm resonator portion closest to an antenna end and/or an acoustic wave resonator of a parallel-arm resonator portion closest to the antenna end includes the first IDT electrode including first and second electrode fingers, and the remaining acoustic wave resonators include the second IDT electrode including third and fourth electrode fingers. In the first IDT electrode, a central area, first and second low-acoustic-velocity areas, and first and second high-acoustic-velocity areas extend along a direction perpendicular or substantially perpendicular to an acoustic wave propagating direction.

Abstract: A tunable diplexer arrangement (100) comprising a first filter arrangement (110) and a second filter arrangement (120) connected to respective first (115) and second (125) filter ports of a junction (130), the junction comprising a common port (140), wherein at least the first filter arrangement (110) is a tunable filter comprising a first tuning element (111), wherein the junction (130) comprises a first junction tuning element (112) corresponding to the first tuning element (111) and arranged in connection to the second filter port (125), thereby enabling a tunable matching of the junction (130) with respect to a first frequency characteristic of the first filter arrangement (110).

Abstract: A first filter of a multiplexer includes a ladder filter structure with a plurality of series resonators and a plurality of parallel resonators. Each resonator is an acoustic wave resonator that includes an InterDigital Transducer (IDT) electrode including a pair of comb-shaped electrodes. A total number of reflection electrode fingers of the reflectors of at least one of the series resonator that is closest to the common terminal among the series resonators and the parallel resonator that is closest to the common terminal is smaller than a total number of reflection electrode fingers of the reflectors of each of a remainder of the resonators.

Abstract: A first phase shift circuit (2) converts impedance to achieve impedance matching between a third terminal (1c) of a 90-degree hybrid circuit (1) and a first terminal (4a) of a first nonlinear element (4), and shifts a phase of a radio wave by 180 degrees, and a second phase shift circuit (3) converts impedance to achieve impedance matching between a fourth terminal (1d) of the 90-degree hybrid circuit (1) and a first terminal (5a) of a second nonlinear element (5), and shifts a phase of a radio wave by 90 degrees. As a result of this configuration, a conversion loss of radio waves can be reduced.

Abstract: An electronic component device includes first and second mount boards, and first, second, and third electronic components. The first electronic component includes a first major surface and a second major surface, and is disposed on the first mount board. The first major surface is positioned closer to the first mount board than the second major surface. The second electronic component includes a third major surface and a fourth major surface, and is disposed on the second mount board. The third major surface is positioned closer to the second mount board than the fourth major surface. The third electronic component includes a fifth major surface and a sixth major surface, and is disposed on the second mount board. The fifth major surface is positioned closer to the second mount board than the sixth major surface. The second major surface directly contacts the fourth and sixth major surfaces, or indirectly contacts the fourth and sixth major surfaces with a bonding layer interposed therebetween.

Abstract: An acoustic wave device includes a first acoustic wave element including a first substrate having piezoelectricity at least in a portion thereof, a first functional electrode provided on a first surface of the first substrate, and a first wiring conductor electrically connected to the first functional electrode. The first acoustic wave element further includes a relay electrode on the first surface of the first substrate and electrically connected to a second wiring conductor, and a ground electrode on the first surface of the first substrate and electrically connected to the first functional electrode. The ground electrode is between at least one of the first functional electrode and the first wiring conductor, and the relay electrode, and is electrically insulated from the relay electrode.

Abstract: Acoustic resonator devices and filters are disclosed. An acoustic resonator includes a substrate and a piezoelectric plate having parallel front and back surfaces, the back surface attached to the substrate. A decoupling dielectric layer is on the front surface of the piezoelectric plate. An interdigital transducer (IDT) is formed over the decoupling dielectric layer such that interleaved fingers of the IDT are over a portion of the piezoelectric plate suspended across a cavity formed in the substrate.

Abstract: A filter device includes series and parallel arm resonators provided at a filter chip and inductors electrically connected in series with respective ones of the parallel arm resonators. A first inductor having the highest inductance of the inductors is electrically connected in series with a first parallel arm resonator having the highest anti-resonant frequency of the parallel arm resonators. One end of the first parallel arm resonator and one end of a second parallel arm resonator in other ones of the parallel arm resonators are electrically connected to a same wiring line in wiring lines separated by the series arm resonators on a line electrically connecting an input terminal and an output terminal of the filter chip. The other ends of the first and second parallel arm resonators are respectively electrically connected to first and second ground terminals of the filter chip.

Abstract: A surface acoustic wave resonator comprises at least one set of interdigital transducer (IDT) electrodes disposed on an upper surface of a piezoelectric substrate between first and second reflector gratings, a layer of silicon nitride disposed over the at least one set of IDT electrodes and the first and second reflector gratings, and a continuous trench formed in the layer of silicon nitride over portions of bus bar electrodes and tips of electrode fingers of the at least one set of IDT electrodes and over portions of bus bar electrodes and electrode fingers of the first and second reflector gratings to reduce acoustic leakage at electrode fingers of the first and second reflector gratings proximate the at least one set of IDT electrodes.