Abstract: An acoustic wave device includes a piezoelectric layer, a first comb-shaped electrode on the piezoelectric layer, including a first busbar and first electrode fingers, and connected to an input potential, a second comb-shaped electrode on the piezoelectric layer, including a second busbar and second electrode fingers interdigitated with the first electrode fingers, and connected to an output potential, and a reference potential electrode connected to a reference potential and including third electrode fingers on the piezoelectric layer aligned with the first and second electrode fingers, and a connection electrode connecting adjacent third electrode fingers. An order in which a first electrode finger, a second electrode finger, and a third electrode finger are arranged is such that, starting from the first electrode finger, the first electrode finger, the third electrode finger, the second electrode finger, and the third electrode finger define one period.

Abstract: An acoustic wave device includes a piezoelectric layer, first and second comb-shaped electrodes respectively including first and second electrode fingers, and a reference potential electrode including third electrode fingers. An order in which the first, second, and third electrode fingers are arranged is the first electrode finger, the third electrode finger, the second electrode finger, and the third electrode finger and defines one period. A pair of reflectors sandwich a region where the first electrode finger, the second electrode finger, and the third electrode finger are provided in an electrode finger orthogonal direction.

Abstract: An acoustic wave filter includes acoustic wave resonators including a piezoelectric substrate and an IDT electrode including first and second electrode fingers. An intersecting region of the first and second electrode fingers includes a central region and first and second edge regions on outer side portions of the central region. An acoustic velocity in the first and second edge regions is lower than that in the central region, and the acoustic wave resonators include a first acoustic wave resonator with a width in the first and second edge regions larger than a width in the central region, and a second acoustic wave resonator including at least one of an acoustic velocity reducing film and an acoustic velocity increasing film in the central region, such that an acoustic velocity in the first and second edge regions is lower than acoustic velocity in the center region.

Abstract: An acoustic wave device includes a silicon support substrate, a silicon nitride film on the support substrate, a silicon oxide film on the silicon nitride film, a piezoelectric layer on the silicon oxide film and using Y-cut X-SAW propagation lithium tantalate, and an IDT electrode on the piezoelectric layer. A film thickness of the piezoelectric layer is equal to or less than about 1?, Euler angles of the piezoelectric layer are (0±5°, ?, 0±5°) or (0±5°, ?, 180±5°), ? in the Euler angles of the piezoelectric layer is about 95.5°??<117.5° or about ?84.5°??<?62.5°, and a relationship between ? in the Euler angles of the piezoelectric layer and a film thickness of the silicon nitride film is a combination shown in Table 1 or Table 2.

Abstract: An acoustic wave device includes a support including a support substrate, a piezoelectric layer on the support, an IDT electrode on the piezoelectric layer and including a pair of busbars and electrode fingers, and mass addition films on the electrode fingers. An acoustic reflection portion overlaps at least a portion of the IDT electrode. d/p is about 0.5 or smaller. A region in which adjacent electrode fingers overlap each other is a cross region including a central region, and first and second edge regions. At least a portion of the mass addition films overlap the central region. A width of at least one of the mass addition films is different from a width of other mass addition films.

Abstract: An acoustic wave device includes a support, a piezoelectric layer on the support, an IDT electrode on the piezoelectric layer and including busbars and electrode fingers, and mass-added films on the electrode fingers. An acoustic reflection portion is provided in the support and overlaps at least a portion of the IDT electrode. d/p is about 0.5 or less. When viewed in an electrode finger orthogonal direction, a region in which the electrode fingers adjacent to each other overlap each other is an intersecting region including a central region, and first and second edge regions. At least a portion of the mass-added films overlaps the central region in plan view.

Abstract: An acoustic wave device includes a support substrate, a piezoelectric layer, and an IDT electrode. The piezoelectric layer is over the support substrate. The IDT electrode is on the piezoelectric layer, and includes a plurality of electrode fingers. An intersecting width of the plurality of electrode fingers is equal to or smaller than about 5?.

Abstract: An acoustic wave device includes a piezoelectric substrate, a first interdigital transducer (IDT) electrode, reflectors on both sides of the first IDT electrode in a propagation direction of an acoustic wave, and a second IDT electrode facing the first IDT electrode with a reflector interposed therebetween. The first and second IDT electrodes include first and second intersecting areas in which electrode fingers overlap in the propagation direction. The first and second intersecting areas overlap in the propagation direction. A third busbar of the second IDT electrode is coupled to a first busbar of the first IDT electrode. A fourth busbar of the second IDT electrode is coupled to a ground potential. A resonant frequency of the second IDT electrode is in a frequency band of an interference wave signal.

Abstract: An acoustic wave device includes a support including a support substrate, a piezoelectric layer on the support, and an IDT electrode on the piezoelectric layer and including busbars and electrode fingers. In plan view when viewed in a lamination direction of the support and the piezoelectric layer, an acoustic reflector overlaps at least a portion of the IDT electrode on the support. When a thickness of the piezoelectric layer is defined as d and a center-to-center distance between the electrode fingers adjacent to each other is defined as p, d/p is about 0.5 or smaller. Mass addition films are located over at least one of pair of edge regions and a gap region adjacent to the edge region and aligned in an electrode finger facing direction. The mass addition films are not located on at least a portion between the adjacent electrode fingers.

Abstract: An acoustic wave device includes a piezoelectric substrate including a support that includes a support substrate, and a piezoelectric layer on the support, a functional electrode on the piezoelectric layer and including a pair of electrode fingers, and a dielectric film covering the pair of electrode fingers. An acoustic reflection portion overlaps at least a portion of the functional electrode in plan view seen along a laminating direction of the support and the piezoelectric layer. Assuming a thickness of the piezoelectric layer is d and a center-to-center distance between adjacent electrode fingers is p, d/p is about 0.5 or less. A dielectric film ridge portion and an electrode finger ridge portion have a curved shape, in which a curvature radius of at least a portion of the dielectric film ridge portion is larger than a curvature radius of at least a portion of the electrode finger ridge portion.

Abstract: An acoustic wave device includes a piezoelectric substrate including a support that includes a support substrate, and a piezoelectric layer located on the support, a functional electrode located on the piezoelectric layer and including at least one pair of electrode fingers, and a dielectric film located on the piezoelectric layer to cover the at least one pair of electrode fingers. An acoustic reflection portion is located at a position overlapping at least a portion of the functional electrode in plan view. Assuming a thickness of the piezoelectric layer is d and a center-to-center distance between the electrode fingers adjacent to each other is p, d/p is about 0.5 or less. Angles of corners ?1, ?2, ?3, and ?4 are such that at least one of ?1??3 or ?2??4 is satisfied.

Abstract: An acoustic wave device includes a piezoelectric substrate including a support including a support substrate and a piezoelectric layer on the support and made of lithium tantalate or lithium niobate, and an IDT electrode on the piezoelectric layer and including busbars and electrode fingers. d/p is less than or equal to about 0.5. Some electrode fingers are connected to one busbar. Remaining electrode fingers are connected to another busbar. A crossing region includes a central region and edge regions in an electrode-finger-extending direction. A non-support portion of the support overlaps the central region and about 90% or more of a portion of the edge regions located between the electrode fingers. A through-hole is provided in about 50% or more of the piezoelectric layer overlapping gap regions and located between the electrode fingers. The support portion overlaps a portion of the gap regions where the electrode fingers are provided.

Abstract: An acoustic wave device includes an energy confinement layer, a piezoelectric layer made of Y-cut X-propagation lithium tantalate having a cut angle in a range from about ?10° to about 65°, and an IDT electrode. Electrode fingers of the IDT electrode include an Al metal layer and a high acoustic impedance metal layer having a Young's modulus equal to or more than about 200 GPa and an acoustic impedance higher than Al. The high acoustic impedance metal layer is closer to the piezoelectric layer than the Al metal layer. A wavelength specific film thickness tLT of the piezoelectric layer is expressed by tLT?1?. The total of normalized film thicknesses obtained by normalizing the film thickness of each layer of the electrode finger by a density and Young's modulus of the Al metal layer satisfies T?0.1125tLT+0.0574.

Abstract: An acoustic wave device includes a support including a support substrate, a piezoelectric layer on the support, and an IDT electrode including busbars and electrode fingers, and a mass-adding film on the piezoelectric layer. In plan view as seen in a stacking direction in which the support and the piezoelectric layer are stacked, an acoustic reflector overlaps at least a portion of the IDT electrode. d/p is less than or equal to about 0.5, where d is a thickness of the piezoelectric layer and p is a center-to-center distance between adjacent electrode fingers. A region in which adjacent electrode fingers overlap each other when seen from an electrode-finger-facing direction is a crossing region. Regions between the crossing region and the pair of busbars include first and second gap regions. The mass-adding film overlaps the gap region in plan view and is on the second main surface of the piezoelectric layer.

Abstract: An acoustic wave device includes a support substrate and first and second resonant sections adjacent to each other on the support substrate. Each of the first and second resonant sections includes a piezoelectric thin film, an IDT electrode on the piezoelectric thin film, and a support layer surrounding the piezoelectric thin film in a plan view of the acoustic wave device. The support layer has a different linear expansion coefficient from the piezoelectric thin film. The piezoelectric thin film in the first resonant section and the piezoelectric thin film in the second resonant section are divided by the support layer between the resonant section and the resonant section.

Abstract: An acoustic wave device includes a support including a support substrate, a piezoelectric layer on the support, made of lithium niobate or lithium tantalate, and including a first main surface and a second main surface that oppose each other, and an interdigital transducer electrode on the first main surface of the piezoelectric layer. An acoustic reflection portion is at a position overlapping at least a portion of the IDT electrode in a plan view when viewed along a laminating direction of the support and the piezoelectric layer. The IDT electrode includes a first busbar and a second busbar that oppose each other, first electrode fingers each including one end connected to the first busbar, and second electrode fingers each including one end connected to the second busbar and being interdigitated with the plurality of first electrode fingers.

Abstract: An acoustic wave device includes a support substrate, a piezoelectric layer on the support substrate, and an IDT electrode on the piezoelectric layer and including electrode fingers. Lithium niobate or lithium tantalate is used as a material of the piezoelectric layer. One of YAG, rutile, lanthanum aluminate, strontium titanate, or yttrium aluminate is used as a material of the support substrate.

Abstract: A first filter of a multiplexer includes serial resonators and parallel resonators that are acoustic wave resonators. A first of the serial resonators that is closer to a common terminal than the other serial resonators is connected to the common terminal without the parallel resonators interposed therebetween. Each of the elastic wave resonators includes a substrate having piezoelectricity, an IDT electrode provided on the substrate, and a dielectric layer provided on the substrate to cover the IDT electrode. A thickness of the dielectric layer of the first serial resonator is smaller than a thickness of each of the dielectric layers of the remainder of the elastic wave resonators.

Abstract: An acoustic wave device includes a support, a piezoelectric layer including lithium niobate or lithium tantalate, and an interdigital transducer electrode including busbars and electrode fingers. An acoustic reflection portion overlaps a portion of the IDT electrode. d/p is about 0.5 or less. An intersecting region includes a central region and edge regions. Gap regions are located between the intersecting region and the busbars. At least one mass addition film is provided in at least one of the edge regions or the gap regions, where any two points, in an electrode finger facing direction, of a portion in which the mass addition film is located are first and second points, thicknesses of the mass addition film at at least a pair of the first point and the second point are different from each other.

Abstract: An acoustic wave device includes a piezoelectric substrate, and an IDT electrode on the piezoelectric substrate. The piezoelectric substrate includes a high acoustic velocity layer, and a piezoelectric layer. The IDT electrode includes a first busbar and a second busbar, and first and second electrode fingers interdigitated with each other. A first envelope and a second envelope each extend in a slanted direction with respect to an acoustic wave propagation direction, the first envelope being an imaginary line formed by connecting tips of the first electrode fingers, the second envelope being an imaginary line formed by connecting tips of the second electrode fingers. The first dielectric film is located in at least one gap of first and second gaps, the first gaps being located between the first electrode fingers and the second busbar, the second gaps being located between the second electrode fingers and the first busbar. The first dielectric film has a density greater than a density of silicon oxide.