Abstract: In a filter device, a transversal elastic wave filter, which defines a delay element, is connected in parallel with a band pass filter. The transversal elastic wave filter has the same amplitude characteristic as and the opposite phase to the band pass filter at a desired frequency inside an attenuation range of the band pass filter. When a wavelength determined by an electrode finger period of IDTs and is denoted by ?, the distance between the first IDT and the second IDT of the elastic wave filter is about 12? or less.

Abstract: An acoustic resonator device includes a temperature compensation structure disposed beneath the first electrode and above the substrate.

Abstract: Embodiments of a broadband capacitor in a coaxial line are described. A capacitor may be realized in the center conductor of the coaxial line, and this aspect has two different embodiments. One embodiment forms the capacitor between the flat faces of an interrupted inner conductor structure. A second embodiment forms the capacitor between overlapping fingers of the female inner conductor and the male inner conductor, where the fingers can be realized in different ways. In another embodiment, a capacitor is realized in the outer conductor of the coaxial line, between fingers of a female portion of the outer conductor and a male portion of the outer conductor, where the fingers can be realized in different ways.

Abstract: A bulk acoustic wave (BAW) resonator includes a bottom electrode disposed on a substrate, a piezoelectric layer disposed over the bottom electrode, and a top electrode disposed over the piezoelectric layer. The BAW resonator further includes at least one air-gap and corresponding support structure, where the at least one air-gap separates at least one of the bottom electrode and the top electrode from the piezoelectric layer, respectively.

Abstract: A filter device with a ladder circuit configuration includes series arm resonators and parallel arm resonators, a filter component mounted on a mounting substrate and including a chip substrate and an elastic wave filter chip, a circuit configuration in which a plurality of series arm resonators and parallel arm resonators are defined by the elastic wave filter chip, and inductances are connected between ground-potential-side end portions of the plurality of parallel arm resonators and a ground potential, and in which at least one of the plurality of inductances is provided in the chip substrate and a remaining at least one inductance is provided in the mounting substrate.

Abstract: Described embodiments include a surface acoustic wave device, method, and apparatus. The device includes a piezoelectric substrate and a configurable electrode assembly. The configurable electrode assembly includes a plurality of spaced-apart elongated electrode elements electromechanically coupled with the piezoelectric substrate. The assembly includes a first signal bus crossing each of the plurality of electrode elements and electrically isolated therefrom. The assembly includes a first matrix of addressable switches. Each addressable switch of the first matrix configured to electrically couple a respective electrode element of the plurality of electrode elements with the first signal bus. The assembly includes a second signal bus crossing each of the plurality of electrode elements and electrically isolated therefrom. The assembly includes a second matrix of addressable switches.

Abstract: A high-frequency module includes a filter unit and first and second external connection terminals. The filter unit includes first and second terminals and a plurality of SAW resonators. The plurality of SAW resonators are connected to one another by connection conductors. A matching element is connected between the first terminal and the first external connection terminal, and a matching element is connected between the second terminal and the second external connection terminal. At least one of the matching elements is inductively coupled or capacitively coupled to at least one of the connection conductors located at a position such that at least one of the SAW resonators is interposed between the matching element and the connection conductor.

Abstract: A reactance filter includes a series branch that connects a signal input to a signal output. At least one parallel branch branches off from the series branch with respect to ground. A parallel resonator is arranged in each parallel branch. Two or more series resonators are connected in series in the series branch. A capacitor is connected in parallel with one of the series resonators in the series branch.

Abstract: An RF component can have a reduced electromagnetic internal coupling and may be suitable for miniaturization as a result. The component includes a micro acoustic filter of ladder-type design in a housing and a double coil having a first coil segment and a second coil segment. The two coil segments are oriented in opposite directions. The two coil segments are arranged without crossover in one layer and the double coil is arranged in proximity to a parallel branch resonator of the ladder-type filter structure.

Abstract: An interconnecting structure for electrically connecting a first electronic device with a second electronic device is provided. The first electronic device has two first bond-pads, and the second electronic device has two second bond-pads electrically connected to the two first bond-pads respectively. The interconnecting structure includes a signal transmission structure electrically connected to the two first bond-pads and the two second bond-pads; and a ground device disposed between the first electronic device and the second electronic device so that the first electronic device and the second electronic device have a same ground potential.

Abstract: A described surface acoustic wave device includes a piezoelectric substrate and a configurable electrode assembly. The assembly includes: an array of N rows of M electrically isolated elongated electrode sub-elements arranged end-to-end in columns; a first signal bus proximate to the first row of the N rows; a first matrix of row addressable switches configured to electrically couple the first signal bus with a respective electrode sub-element of the first row of electrode sub-elements; a second signal bus proximate to the Nth row of the N rows; a second matrix of addressable row switches configured to electrically couple the second signal bus with a respective electrode sub-element of the Nth row of electrode sub-elements; and a plurality of addressable column switches, each addressable column switch respectively configured to electrically couple an electrode of a column of the M columns with an end-to-end adjacent electrode of the same column.

Abstract: A module includes: a duplexer including an antenna terminal; a first wiring connecting the antenna terminal to an antenna; a second wiring coupled to the antenna terminal without the first wiring; and an inductor coupled to the second wiring.

Abstract: An acoustic resonator device includes a bottom electrode disposed on a substrate over an acoustic reflecting feature, a piezoelectric layer disposed on the bottom electrode and a top electrode disposed on the piezoelectric layer, where an overlap between the top electrode, the piezoelectric layer and the bottom electrode over the acoustic reflecting feature define an active region of the acoustic resonator device. The acoustic resonator device further includes at least one of a wing having an outer edge extending beyond at least a portion of an outer edge of the top electrode, and a first frame formed in one of an outer region or a center region of the top electrode. The at least one of the wing and the first frame has an apodized shape, such that no edges are parallel to one another, the apodized shape of the at least one of the wing and the first frame being different from an electrode shape defined by an outer edge of the top electrode.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to feeding networks for base station antenna. Embodiments of the disclosure may comprise first and second phase shifters, and a 3-way power divider, including an input terminal, a first output terminal for feeding a first unit, a second output terminal connecting to the first phase shifter, and a third output terminal connecting to the second phase shifter. The feeding network may also comprise a first 2-way power divider, including an input terminal connecting to the first phase shifter, a first output terminal for feeding a second unit, and a second output terminal for cascading a third phase shifter. In addition, the feeding network may comprise a second 2-way power divider, including an input terminal connecting to the second phase shifter, a first output terminal for feeding a third unit, and a second output terminal for cascading a fourth phase shifter.

Abstract: A folded corrugated substrate integrated waveguide is disclosed.

Abstract: A solidly mounted resonator (SMR) device includes an acoustic reflector having stacked acoustic reflector layer pairs, each of which includes a low acoustic impedance layer formed of low acoustic impedance material stacked on a high acoustic impedance layer formed of high acoustic impedance material. The SMR device further includes a bottom electrode disposed on the acoustic reflector, a piezoelectric layer disposed on the bottom electrode, and a top electrode disposed on the piezoelectric layer. A collar is formed outside a main active region defined by an overlap between the top electrode, the piezoelectric layer and the bottom electrode, and at least one frame is disposed within the main active region. The collar has an inner edge substantially aligned with a boundary of or overlapping the main active region, and the at least one frame has an outer edge substantially aligned with the boundary of the main active region.

Abstract: A communication device is provided with a band elimination filter that has one end connected to an antenna terminal, and a first multiplexer that is connected to the other end of the band elimination filter. The band elimination filter is configured to eliminate signals of a frequency band that is different from the frequencies of signals transmitted and received in the first multiplexer, and is configured from a filter circuit that includes a bulk wave element.

Abstract: An embodiment filter including metallic plating unitarily forming a spherical shell and a resonator, the resonator defining a resonator cavity, a tuning nut disposed in a lower portion of the resonator cavity, and a tuning screw threadably secured within the resonator cavity by the tuning nut, the tuning screw rotatable to deform an upper portion of the resonator to tune the filter.

Abstract: A filter device includes a first LC parallel resonance circuit having a first inductance and connected between a line connecting an input terminal and an output terminal and a ground potential, a second LC parallel resonance circuit having a second inductance and connected between the line and the ground potential, and at least one elastic wave resonator that is connected between an end portion of the first LC parallel resonance circuit and an end portion of the second LC parallel resonance circuit. Attenuation-frequency characteristics of an LC filter including the first LC parallel resonance circuit, the second LC parallel resonance circuit, and a capacitive property and attenuation-frequency characteristics of the at least one elastic wave resonator are used.

Abstract: An apparatus includes a microelectromechanical system (MEMS) device. The MEMS device includes a resonator suspended from a substrate, an anchor disposed at a center of the resonator, a plurality of suspended beams radiating between the anchor and the resonator, a plurality of first electrodes disposed about the anchor, and a plurality of second electrodes disposed about the anchor. The plurality of first electrodes and the resonator form a first electrostatic transducer. The plurality of second electrodes and the resonator form a second electrostatic transducer. The first electrostatic transducer and the second electrostatic transducer are configured to sustain rotational vibrations of the resonator at a predetermined frequency about an axis through the center of the resonator and orthogonal to a plane of the substrate in response to a signal on the first electrode.