A 6 GHz Wi-Fi bandpass filter includes a ladder filter circuit with two or more shunt transversely-excited film bulk acoustic resonators (XBARs) and two or more series XBARs. Each of the two or more shunt XBARS includes a diaphragm having an LN-equivalent thickness greater than or equal to 310 nm, and each of the two or more series XBARS includes a diaphragm having an LN-equivalent thickness less than or equal to 305 nm.

An acoustic wave device includes a support substrate, a piezoelectric layer on the support substrate, a functional electrode on the piezoelectric layer, and first and second electrode films on the piezoelectric layer, facing each other, and having different electric potentials from each other. When a region between the first and second electrode films in a plan view is an inter-electrode film region, and a region overlapping with the first electrode film or the second electrode film in a plan view is an electrode film underlying region, a thickness of the piezoelectric layer in at least a portion of the inter-electrode film region is smaller than a thickness of the piezoelectric layer in the electrode film underlying region.

Harmonic suppression in bulk acoustic wave duplexer. In some embodiments, a filter circuit can include an input node and an output node, and a first assembly having one or more bulk acoustic wave (BAW) resonators implemented electrically between the input node and the output node, and configured to filter a signal. The filter circuit can further include a second assembly having one or more surface acoustic wave (SAW) resonators implemented electrically relative to the first assembly, and configured to suppress one or more harmonics resulting from the filtering of the signal by the first assembly.

A filter includes a piezoelectric film, an acoustic wave resonator including a functional electrode on the piezoelectric film, a capacitor connected in parallel to the acoustic wave resonator, and a resonator electrically connected to the acoustic wave resonator. The functional electrode includes first and second busbars facing each other and first and second electrodes respectively connected to the first and second busbars. The filter further includes a connection electrode on the piezoelectric film and electrically connecting the capacitor and the second busbar to each other. The capacitor includes the first busbar, an insulation film on the first busbar, and a capacitance electrode on the insulation film and that is electrically insulated from the first busbar.

A filter module has a first terminal, a second terminal, and at least one filter disposed along each signal path extending from the first terminal to the second terminal. The filter can include a plurality of series resonators and a plurality of shunt resonators disposed between the series resonators and a ground configured to enhance power ruggedness of the filter module. A matching circuit coupled to the filter performs impedance matching of the filter.

An RF filter system including a plurality of BAW resonators arranged in a circuit, the circuit including a serial configuration of resonators and a parallel shunt configuration of resonators, the circuit having a circuit response corresponding to the serial configuration and the parallel configuration of the plurality of bulk acoustic wave resonators including a transmission loss from a pass band having a bandwidth from 5.855 GHz to 5.925 GHz. Resonators include a support member with a multilayer reflector structure; a first electrode including tungsten; a piezoelectric film including aluminum scandium nitride; a second electrode including tungsten; and a passivation layer including silicon nitride. At least one resonator includes at least a portion of the first electrode located within a cavity region defined by a surface of the support member.

A filter includes: one or more series resonators connected in series between an input terminal and an output terminal, the one or more series resonators including a series resonator located closest to the output terminal, the series resonator located closest to the output terminal having a resonant frequency that is 99.6% or less of or 102.2% or greater of a center frequency of a passband; one or more parallel resonators connected in parallel between the input terminal and the output terminal; and an inductor connected in parallel to the series resonator located closest to the output terminal.

A bulk acoustic resonator includes a substrate, a frequency control layer changing a resonant frequency or antiresonant frequency of the bulk acoustic resonator according to a thickness of the frequency control layer, a piezoelectric layer disposed between the frequency control layer and the substrate, a first electrode disposed between the piezoelectric layer and the substrate, a second electrode disposed between the piezoelectric layer and the frequency control layer, a metal layer connected to the first electrode or the second electrode, and a protective layer disposed between the second electrode and the frequency control layer, wherein the frequency control layer covers a larger area than that of the protective layer.

A packaged acoustic wave component includes a support substrate, a multi-layer piezoelectric substrate disposed over a first side of the support substrate, one or more metal layers disposed on a second side of the support substrate that is opposite the first side of the support substrate, and one or more surface acoustic wave resonators or filters disposed over the multi-layer piezoelectric substrate. The one or more surface acoustic wave resonators or filters include a multi-mode surface acoustic wave resonator or filter (e.g., dual mode surface acoustic wave resonator or filter). One or more vias extend through the support substrate and electrically connect the multi-mode surface acoustic wave resonator or filter and the one or more metal layers to provide a ground connection for the multi-mode surface acoustic wave resonator or filter, while reducing parasitic inductance.

An acoustic resonator device includes a substrate having a surface and a piezoelectric plate having front and back surfaces, with the back surface attached to the surface of the substrate except for a portion of the piezoelectric plate forming a diaphragm that spans a cavity in the substrate. An interdigital transducer (IDT) is formed on the front surface of the piezoelectric plate such that interleaved fingers of the IDT are disposed on the diaphragm. Stripes of a dielectric material formed over the plate in gaps between ends of the interleaved fingers and opposing busbars of the IDT.