Acoustic wave filter and multiplexer
AssigneeMurata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
InventorsAkira NOGUCHI, Yasunori KISHIMOTO
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Abstract
An acoustic wave filter includes a filter circuit and an additional circuit that includes IDTs and reflectors. The IDTs each include comb-shaped electrode fingers. The reflectors each include reflector electrode fingers. A relationship of about 0.60+n≤G/(Pi+Pr)≤0.93+n is satisfied, where n is an integer of 0 or more, Pi is an array pitch of the comb-shaped electrode fingers arranged along a second direction, Pr is an array pitch of the reflector electrode fingers arranged along the second direction, and G denotes, in boundary regions between the IDTs and the reflectors, an IDT-reflector gap, which is a center-to-center distance between a comb-shaped electrode finger closest to the reflectors and a reflector electrode finger closest to the IDTs.
Claims20
An acoustic wave filter comprising:
- an input terminal and an output terminal;
- a filter circuit on a first path connecting the input terminal and the output terminal;
- and
- an additional circuit on a second path connected in parallel with at least a portion of the first path;
- wherein
- the additional circuit includes an acoustically-coupled resonator including a plurality of interdigital transducers (IDTs) and a plurality of reflectors;
- the plurality of IDTs each include a pair of comb-shaped electrodes on a piezoelectric substrate;
- each of the comb-shaped electrodes includes a plurality of comb-shaped electrode fingers extending in a first direction parallel or substantially parallel to a main surface of the piezoelectric substrate and extending along a second direction intersecting the first direction;
- the plurality of IDTs are arranged along the second direction;
- the plurality of reflectors are located on both outer sides of the plurality of IDTs in the second direction and each includes a plurality of reflector electrode fingers extending in the first direction and arranged along the second direction;
- and
- a relationship of about 0.60+n≤G/(Pi+Pr)≤0.93+n is satisfied, where n is an integer of 0 or more, Pi denotes an array pitch of the plurality of comb-shaped electrode fingers arranged along the second direction, Pr denotes an array pitch of the plurality of reflector electrode fingers arranged along the second direction, and G denotes, in a boundary region between one of the plurality of IDTs and one of the plurality of reflectors adjacent to the IDT, an IDT-reflector gap, which is a center-to-center distance between one of the plurality of comb-shaped electrode fingers closest to the reflector and one of the plurality of reflector electrode fingers closest to the IDT.
The multiplexer according to claim 16, wherein each of the pair of comb-shaped electrodes is covered by a protective film.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.