Abstract: A double-mode surface-acoustic device having a piezoelectric substrate with two reflectors placed on the piezoelectric substrate and first through third interdigital electrodes placed on the substrate consecutively between the two reflectors. Each electrode containing first through third number of pairs of electrode fingers, respectively.

Abstract: A surface acoustic wave device includes a piezoelectric substrate of a single crystal LiTaO.sub.3 and an electrode pattern provided on the piezoelectric substrate. The electrode pattern contains Al as a primary component and has a thickness in a range of 0.03-0.15 times a wavelength of a surface acoustic wave excited on the piezoelectric substrate. The piezoelectric substrate has an orientation rotated about an X-axis thereof from a Y-axis thereof toward a Z-axis thereof, with a rotational angle of 39-46.degree..

Abstract: A surface-acoustic-wave device includes at least first and second surface-acoustic-wave elements formed on a common piezoelectric substrate and cascaded with each other, each of the first and second surface-acoustic-wave elements including a plurality of interdigital electrodes having a plurality of electrode fingers overlapping with each other in correspondence to a path of a surface acoustic wave on the piezoelectric substrate, wherein the width of overlapping of the electrode fingers is changed between the first surface-acoustic-wave element and the second surface-acoustic-wave element.

Abstract: A surface acoustic wave device includes a piezoelectric substrate of a LiTaO.sub.3 single crystal, the crystal having X, Y and Z axes and a cut plane. The X axis of the crystal is oriented in a direction of propagation of surface acoustic waves. The cut plane of the crystal is rotated around the X axis at a rotated angle from the Y axis to the Z axis, the rotated angle being in a range between 40.degree. and 42.degree.. A pair of reflectors are formed on the substrate and aligned in a row in the direction of propagation. Interdigital transducers are formed on the substrate and aligned in the row in the direction of propagation, the interdigital transducers interposed between the reflectors, each interdigital transducer having pairs of mutually opposed primary electrode fingers and secondary electrode fingers, the interdigital transducers including at least a front transducer, a middle transducer and a rear transducer aligned in the row in the direction of propagation.

Abstract: A surface acoustic wave device is designed such that an inter-digital transducer and a reflector have the same grating cycle. The electrode dye width of the reflector is larger than that of the inter-digital transducer, or the electrode dye width is smaller than the distance between the electrodes by changing at least one of the inter-digital transducer and the reflector. Connecting the thus structured surface acoustic wave devices to a single piezoelectric substrate as resonators in a ladder form produces a surface acoustic wave device for use in a filter.