A multiplexer includes a band pass filter configured to pass a signal in a predetermined frequency band between a first terminal and a common terminal connected to an antenna, and a band elimination filter configured to attenuate a signal in the predetermined frequency band between a second terminal and the common terminal and includes resonators connected in series with a line between the second terminal and the common terminal. The resonators include a first resonator having a lowest resonant frequency and a second resonator disposed on a side of the common terminal from the first resonator.

A front end module includes a base filter configured to operate as a bandpass filter passing a pass band of an input radio frequency signal; a switch connected to the base filter, and a first notch filter and a second notch filter selectively connected to the base filter through the switch, wherein a stop band of the first notch filter and a stop band of the second notch filter overlap the pass band of the base filter in a band equal to or higher than a center frequency of the pass band of the base filter.

A wireless communication device includes a first transceiver operable according to a first radio technology and a second transceiver operable according to a second radio technology and operable concurrently with the first transceiver. The wireless communication device further includes an antenna configured to transmit radio transmissions of the second transceiver, and a filter circuit coupling the second transceiver with the antenna. The filter circuit includes a first frequency path and a second frequency path in parallel. The first frequency path passes a first set of frequencies of the radio transmissions and the second frequency path passes a second set of frequencies of the radio transmissions. One of the first frequency path or the second frequency path is configured to filter the radio transmissions of the second transceiver to remove signals corresponding to the one or more operating frequencies of the first transceiver from the radio transmissions of the second transceiver.

An extractor includes a band pass filter and a band elimination filter. One filter of the band pass filter and the band elimination filter includes at least one serial arm resonator and at least one parallel arm resonator that are each defined by an acoustic wave resonator. Any one of the at least one serial arm resonator and the at least one parallel arm resonator includes, among a divided resonator group divided resonator including a plurality of divided resonators coupled in series to each other, a first divided resonator group that is a largest in number of the divided resonators coupled in series and a smallest in capacitance.

A microfabricated RF filter uses a resonant cavity weakly coupled to a transmission line, to attenuate noise sources emitting interference into the RF radiation at the resonant frequency. Radiation at the resonant frequency is leaked into the resonant cavity and build up there, until it is dumped to ground by a switch.

There are disclosed acoustic resonators and method of fabricating acoustic resonators. An acoustic resonator includes a single-crystal piezoelectric plate having front and back surfaces, the back surface attached to a surface of a substrate except for a portion of the piezoelectric plate forming a diaphragm spanning a cavity in the substrate. A conductor pattern on the front surface includes a multi-pitch interdigital transducer (IDT) with interleaved fingers of the IDT disposed on the diaphragm.

A band elimination filter includes a plurality of parallel resonators, each including a piezoelectric substrate and an IDT electrode on a surface of the piezoelectric substrate. The IDT electrode includes a pair of comb-shaped electrodes opposing each other, and the IDT electrode includes electrode fingers, a pitch of the electrode fingers being different between an end portion of the IDT electrode in a propagation direction of an elastic wave and a central portion of the IDT electrode different from the end portion.

A filter device provides a wideband passband of a communication device for a RF signal. The filter device includes a first filter circuit in parallel with a second filter circuit. The first filter circuit includes a first notch filter, and has a first notch. The second filter circuit includes a second notch filter in series with a reversal circuit for phase shifting the RF signal filtered by the second notch filter, the second filter circuit having a second notch. The first and second filter circuits form a band pass filter having a passband between a lower cutoff frequency defined by the second notch and an upper cutoff frequency defined by the first notch. The band pass filter provides low insertion loss in the passband, and high insertion loss in an adjacent lower stopband below the lower cutoff frequency and in an adjacent upper stopband above the upper cutoff frequency.

A wireless communication device includes a first transceiver operable according to a first radio technology and a second transceiver operable according to a second radio technology and operable concurrently with the first transceiver. The wireless communication device further includes an antenna configured to transmit radio transmissions of the second transceiver, and a filter circuit coupling the second transceiver with the antenna. The filter circuit includes a first frequency path and a second frequency path in parallel. The first frequency path passes a first set of frequencies of the radio transmissions and the second frequency path passes a second set of frequencies of the radio transmissions. One of the first frequency path or the second frequency path is configured to filter the radio transmissions of the second transceiver to remove signals corresponding to the one or more operating frequencies of the first transceiver from the radio transmissions of the second transceiver.

Aspects of this disclosure relate to an acoustic wave resonator having at least two resonant frequencies. An acoustic wave filter can include series acoustic wave resonators and shunt acoustic wave resonators together arranged to filter a radio frequency signal. A first shunt resonator of the shunt acoustic wave resonators can include an interdigital transducer electrode and have at least a first resonant frequency and a second resonant frequency. Related acoustic wave resonators, multiplexers, wireless devices, and methods are disclosed.