Aspects of the disclosure relate to wireless communication, and high-frequency filters with resonators. One example is a frequency band filter circuit having a split resonator. The split resonator comprises a resonator including a first section of a shared input busbar, a first section of a shared output busbar, and an electrode structure between the first section of the shared input busbar and the first section of the shared output busbar, the electrode structure configured for a resonance. The split resonator also comprises a detuned resonator. The detuned resonator includes a second section of the shared input busbar, a second section of the shared output busbar, and a detuned electrode structure between the second section of the shared input busbar and the second section of the shared output busbar, the detuned electrode structure configured for a detuned resonance different from the resonance.

Aspects of the disclosure relate to an electroacoustic device that includes a piezoelectric material and an electrode structure that includes a first busbar and a second busbar along with electrode fingers arranged in an interdigitated manner and including a first plurality of fingers connected to the first busbar and a second plurality of fingers connected to the second busbar. The electrode structure further includes a first conductive structure disposed between each of the first plurality of fingers and disposed between the first busbar and the second plurality of fingers. The electrode structure further includes a second conductive structure disposed between each of the second plurality of fingers and disposed between the second busbar and the first plurality of fingers. The first conductive structure and the second conductive structure each have a height that is less than a height of the second plurality of fingers.

An acoustic wave filter device includes a longitudinally coupled resonator acoustic wave filter on a series arm that connects an input terminal and an output terminal, first and second parallel arm resonators on first and second parallel arms that connect the series arm and a ground potential, an input-side ground port of the longitudinally coupled resonator acoustic wave filter and a ground port of at least one of the first and second parallel arm resonators are connected in common, an output-side ground port of the longitudinally coupled resonator acoustic wave filter and a ground port of at least another of the first and second parallel arm resonators are connected in common, and an electrostatic capacitance of the first parallel arm resonator is different from an electrostatic capacitance of the second parallel arm resonator.

A multiplexer includes first and second filters and additional circuits. The first filter is coupled to transmit and antenna terminals, the second filter is coupled to receive and antenna terminals, one additional circuit is coupled to transmit and receive terminals, and another additional circuit is coupled to transmit and antenna terminals. Pass bands of the first and second filters are respectively first and second frequency bands, and the second frequency band including a center frequency higher than a center frequency of the first frequency band. The one additional circuit includes a first resonator group including first IDT electrodes aligned in a propagation direction of an acoustic wave. The other additional circuit includes a second resonator group including second IDT electrodes aligned in the propagation direction. An average pitch of electrode fingers is greater among the first IDT electrodes than the second IDT electrodes.

An acoustic wave device includes an acoustic wave resonator and a longitudinally coupled acoustic wave resonator filter, in which the longitudinally coupled acoustic wave resonator filter is shorter than the acoustic wave resonator in terms of a length of first and second edge regions that is a dimension along an extending direction of electrode fingers of the first and second edge regions in an IDT electrode.

A filter is provided that includes a set of cascaded resonator stages coupled between a filter input and a first filter output, wherein the filter includes a second filter output coupled to an output of a first or an intermediate one of the set of cascaded resonator stages. Another filter includes a set of cascaded resonator stages coupled between a first filter input and a filter output, wherein the filter includes a second filter input coupled to an input of an intermediate or a last one of the set of cascaded resonator stages. Both filters are configured to apply a first filter frequency response to a first signal propagating via the set of cascaded resonator stages, and apply a second filter frequency response to a second signal propagating via a subset of one or more of the set of cascaded resonator stages.

An acoustic wave element includes an electrode-finger pitch of reflecting-electrode fingers greater than an electrode-finger pitch pi of comb-shaped electrode fingers, and a center-to-center distance between a reflecting-electrode finger and a comb-shaped electrode finger is equal to or less than about 0.9 times the electrode-finger pitch of the reflecting-electrode fingers. When a reflecting-electrode finger counted from a closest reflecting-electrode finger is designated as a k-th reflecting-electrode finger in order, a reflecting-electrode finger farthest from the IDT electrode is defined as an (n+1)-th reflecting-electrode finger, and an electrode-finger pitch between the k-th reflecting-electrode finger and a (k+1)-th reflecting-electrode finger is defined as a k-th electrode-finger pitch p.sub.k, a value of electrode-finger pitches from a first electrode-finger pitch p.sub.1 to the k-th electrode-finger pitch p.sub.k is less than a value of electrode-finger pitches from a (k+1)-th electrode-finger pitch p.sub.k+1 to an n-th electrode-finger pitch p.sub.n.

A multiplexer (1) includes a plurality of filters connected to a common terminal (110). The multiplexer (1) includes: a low-frequency filter (11L) that is formed of at least one surface acoustic wave resonator arranged between the common terminal (110) and the input/output terminal (120) and has a first pass band; a high-frequency filter (12H) that is connected between the common terminal (110) and the input/output terminal (130) and has a second pass band located at a higher frequency than the first pass band; and a capacitor (C.sub.B1) that is serially arranged in a connection path between the common terminal (110) and the low-frequency filter (11L). The Q value of the capacitor (C.sub.B1) in the second pass band is higher than the Q value in the second pass band of a capacitance obtained by treating the at least one surface acoustic wave resonator of the low-frequency filter (11L) as a capacitance.

A SAW transducer and a SAW resonator are proposed composed of consecutively arranged unit cells of length L. Slight geometry or material variations such as variations of the metallization ration or the unit cell length L affecting the pitch) between these unit cells result in improved spurious mode suppression while the main mode performance is unaffected.

Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide a filter. The filter generally includes a series resonator coupled between a first port of the filter and a second port of the filter, and a shunt resonator coupled between a node of the filter and a reference potential node of the filter, the node being coupled between the first port and the second port. The shunt resonator typically includes a first piezoelectric substrate, a first plurality of reflectors disposed above the first piezoelectric substrate, and a first plurality of interdigital transducers (IDTs) disposed above the first piezoelectric substrate and between the first plurality of reflectors, wherein the shunt resonator is configured as a dual mode structure (DMS).