An acoustic resonator device includes a piezoelectric plate attached to a substrate. A portion of the piezoelectric plate forms a diaphragm suspended over a cavity in the substrate. A first conductor level includes first and second interdigital transducer (IDT) first-level busbars disposed along opposing sides of the diaphragm, and first and second sets of IDT fingers extending from the first and second busbars, respectively, wherein the first and second sets of IDT fingers are interleaved and disposed on the diaphragm. A second conductor level includes first and second second-level busbars that overlap at least a portion of the first and second busbars, respectively.

A composite substrate includes a support substrate made of Si, a high acoustic velocity material layer, a low acoustic velocity film, and a piezoelectric layer. In Euler angles (φ, θ, ψ) of the Si, φ and θ are within regions indicated by hatching with slant lines in FIG. 4. An acoustic wave device includes an IDT electrode in contact with the piezoelectric layer of the composite substrate.

Acoustic resonator devices and methods are disclosed. An acoustic resonator device includes a piezoelectric plate having opposed front and back surfaces. A first electrode and a second electrode are formed on the front surface of the piezoelectric plate, the first and second electrodes and the piezoelectric plate configured such that a radio frequency signal applied between the first and second electrodes excites a shear primary acoustic mode in the piezoelectric plate. The first electrode and the second electrode have trapezoidal cross-sectional shapes. A sidewall angle of at least one side surface of the first electrode and a sidewall angle of at least one side surface of the second electrode are greater than or equal to 70 degrees and less than or equal to 110 degrees.

A Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) based ring resonator includes an outer ring which is supported in resilient deformable movement relative to one or more peripherally disposed electrodes by a symmetrically positioned array of radially extending inner spring supports. The inner spring supports extend radially from a central anchor post or support to the inner circumferential edge of the outer ring. The innerspring supports are configured to deformation or regulate movement in outer ring driving and sensing modes.

Nonlinear acoustic media and related methods are described herein. The nonlinear acoustic media are configured to generate higher harmonic output signals from a single-frequency input signal. The higher harmonic output signals can be generated through the coupling of an acoustic dielectric medium to a nonlinear piezoelectric medium having four ports.

A packaged acoustic wave component is disclosed. The packaged acoustic wave component can include a first acoustic wave resonator that includes a first interdigital transducer electrode that is positioned over a first piezoelectric layer. The packaged acoustic wave component can also include a second acoustic wave resonator including a second interdigital transducer electrode positioned over a second piezoelectric layer. The second piezoelectric layer is bonded to the first piezoelectric layer. The packaged acoustic wave component can further include a stopper structure that is positioned over the first piezoelectric layer. The first stopper structure is positioned above a via and extends through the first piezoelectric layer. The stopper structure is in electrical communication with the first interdigital transducer electrode and includes a material which reflects at least fifty percent of light having a wavelength of 355 nanometers.

An RF integrated circuit device can includes a substrate and a High Electron Mobility Transistor (HEMT) device on the substrate including a ScAlN layer configured to provide a buffer layer of the HEMT device to confine formation of a 2DEG channel region of the HEMT device. An RF piezoelectric resonator device can be on the substrate including the ScAlN layer sandwiched between a top electrode and a bottom electrode of the RF piezoelectric resonator device to provide a piezoelectric resonator for the RF piezoelectric resonator device.

Aspects of this disclosure relate to bulk acoustic wave resonators. A bulk acoustic wave resonator includes a patterned mass loading layer that affects a resonant frequency of the bulk acoustic wave resonator. The patterned mass loading layer can have a duty factor in a range from 0.2 to 0.8 in a main acoustically active region of the bulk acoustic wave resonator. Related filters, acoustic wave dies, radio frequency modules, wireless communications devices, and methods are disclosed.

A bulk acoustic wave filter, a manufacturing method thereof, and a communication device are disclosed. The bulk acoustic wave filter includes a first filter substrate and a second filter substrate; the first filter substrate includes a first base substrate and a first resonator, a first electrode pad and a first auxiliary pad arranged on the first base substrate; the second filter substrate includes a second base substrate and a second resonator, a second electrode pad and a second auxiliary pad arranged on the second base substrate, the first filter substrate is arranged opposite to the second filter substrate, the first electrode pad and the second auxiliary pad are in contact with each other, and the second electrode pad and the first auxiliary pad are in contact with each other.

A BAW resonator filter can include a BAW resonator pass-band filter ladder, the BAW resonator pass-band filter ladder can be configured to pass frequency components of an input signal in a pass-band of frequencies received at an input node of the BAW resonator pass-band filter ladder to an output node of the BAW resonator pass-band filter ladder. A first rejection-band series resonator can be coupled in series between an input port of the BAW resonator pass-band filter ladder and the input node, the first rejection-band series resonator can have a first anti-resonant frequency peak in a rejection-band of frequencies that is less than the pass-band of frequencies. A second rejection-band series resonator can be coupled in series between an output port of the BAW resonator filter and the output node, the second rejection-band series resonator can have a second anti-resonant frequency peak in the rejection-band of frequencies.