A band pass filter includes a first filter circuit, a second filter circuit, a first intermediate circuit, a second intermediate circuit, and a ninth capacitor. The first intermediate circuit includes a seventh inductor connected between a fifth capacitor and a sixth capacitor. The second intermediate circuit includes an eighth inductor connected between a seventh capacitor and an eighth capacitor. The ninth capacitor is connected between the first intermediate circuit and the second intermediate circuit.

A Q-enhanced radio-frequency filter featuring loss-compensating circuits with values that can be controlled to optimize loss compensation. Instabilities are avoided by temporarily introducing a reflection at a port (such as via short-circuiting the port) and testing for the beginning of oscillations. Certain embodiments provide negative-resistance circuits for loss compensation, including cross-coupled transistor pairs and adjustable capacitance. Further embodiments provide loss-compensating RF filters with planar inductors, including overlapping planar inductors.

Provided are a capacitor and a filter and a redistribution layer structure including the same. The capacitor includes a first electrode, a second electrode, a third electrode, a dielectric layer, and a conductive through via. The second electrode is disposed above the first electrode. The third electrode is disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode. The dielectric layer is disposed between the first electrode and the third electrode and between the second electrode and the third electrode. The conductive through via penetrates the dielectric layer and the third electrode to be connected to the first electrode and the second electrode, and is electrically separated from the third electrode. The first electrode and the second electrode are signal electrodes, and the third electrode is a ground electrode.

A multilayer substrate includes a via electrode defining and functioning as an end portion on ground terminals side of a first inductor connected to a shield electrode, the end portion on a signal line side is adjacent to or in a vicinity of a first principal surface than the end portion on the ground terminals side is in the lamination direction of base material layers, a via electrode defining and functioning as the end portion on the ground terminals side of a second inductor is connected to the shield electrode, and the end portion on the signal line side is adjacent to or in a vicinity of the first principal surface than the end portion on the ground terminals side is in the lamination direction of the base material layers.

A filter device includes a first port, a second port, a first high-pass filter, a first low-pass filter, and a stack. The first high-pass filter includes a first inductor. The first low-pass filter includes a first inductor. At least one second conductor layer constituting the first inductor of the first low-pass filter is located between at least one first conductor layer constituting the first inductor of the first high-pass filter and a ground conductor layer in a stacking direction.

An LC composite component includes a non-magnetic substrate, a magnetic layer with magnetism, capacitors, inductors, and core parts with magnetism. The non-magnetic substrate includes a first surface and a second surface on a side opposite to the first surface. The magnetic layer is disposed to face the first surface of the non-magnetic substrate. The inductors and the capacitors are disposed between the first surface of the non-magnetic substrate and the magnetic layer. The core parts are disposed between the first surface of the non-magnetic substrate and the magnetic layer and connected to the magnetic layer. The thickness of the core parts is 1.0 or more times the thickness of the magnetic layer in a direction perpendicular to the first surface of the non-magnetic substrate, and each of the magnetic layer and the core parts contains magnetic metal particles and resin.

An LC resonator includes an external connection terminal, an inductor, a capacitor, and a via conductor pattern. The inductor winds around an axis orthogonal to a laminated direction. The capacitor is connected to the inductor. The via conductor pattern extends from the inductor in the laminated direction, and the inductor is connected to the external connection terminal with the via conductor pattern. The inductor includes a columnar conductor pattern extending in the X-axis direction. The area of the columnar conductor pattern in a plan view from the X-axis direction is greater than or equal to the area of the via conductor pattern in a plan view from the Z-axis direction.

A low-pass filter includes first to third inductors and a capacitor. A first inductor-forming conductor layer constituting at least a part of each of the first and second inductors and a second inductor-forming conductor layer including first and second portions constituting first and second inductor portions of the third inductor are connected by a plurality of first through holes. The first portion and a capacitor-forming conductor layer constituting a part of the capacitor are connected by a plurality of second through holes. The second portion and the capacitor-forming conductor layer are connected by a plurality of third through holes.

In a coil of an electronic component, at least one first conductor layer includes a first end portion and a second end portion located opposite each other. Each of a plurality of connection conductors is connected to the at least one first conductor layer, and extends in the stacking direction. The plurality of connection conductors include a first connection conductor and a second connection conductor. The first connection conductor and the second connection conductor are connected to the same first end portion. The first connection conductor and the first conductor layer are connected to each other at a first connection portion. The second connection conductor and the first conductor layer are connected to each other at a second connection portion. In the first conductor layer, the first connection portion and the second connection portion are arranged in a direction inclined to an extending direction of the first conductor layer.

A circuit element includes a multilayer body including insulating substrates, a first coil conductor inside the multilayer body, and first and second outer electrodes and a ground electrode on outer surfaces of the multilayer body. The first coil conductor includes a winding axis extending in a stacking direction of the insulating substrates, the first coil conductor is connected to the first outer electrode, the second outer electrode, or the ground electrode, and the second outer electrode extends along a side surface of the multilayer body. An additional capacitance is generated between the second outer electrode and the first coil conductor. The second outer electrode includes first and second portions with different widths in a layer direction of the insulating substrates and the width of the second portion is larger than the width of the first portion.