An elastic wave device includes a support substrate made of silicon, a piezoelectric film disposed directly or indirectly on the support substrate, and an interdigital transducer electrode disposed on one surface of the piezoelectric film. A higher-order mode acoustic velocity of propagation through the piezoelectric film is equal or substantially equal to an acoustic velocity V.sub.si=(V.sub.1).sup.1/2 of propagation through silicon or higher than the acoustic velocity V.sub.si, where V.sub.si is specified by V.sub.1 among solutions V.sub.1, V.sub.2, and V.sub.3 with respect to x derived from Ax.sup.3+Bx.sup.2+Cx+D=0.

A circuit module includes a mounting substrate including a conductor wiring, an elastic wave element provided in or on a main surface of the mounting substrate, an electric element provided in or on the main surface, the electric element being different from the elastic wave element, and an insulating resin portion provided in or on the main surface to cover the elastic wave element and the electric element. The elastic wave element and the electric element are connected to each other by the conductor wiring. A height of the elastic wave element is about 0.28 mm or less, which is less than that of the electric element. The thickness of the resin portion in a region in which the resin portion covers the elastic wave element is greater than the thickness of the resin portion in a region in which the resin portion covers the electric element.

An acoustic wave device includes a support substrate, a silicon nitride film stacked on the support substrate, a silicon oxide film stacked on the silicon nitride film, a piezoelectric body stacked on the silicon oxide film and made of lithium tantalite, and an IDT electrode provided on one main surface of the piezoelectric body. For a wavelength normalized film thickness of the piezoelectric body, an Euler angle of the piezoelectric body, a wavelength normalized film thickness of the silicon nitride film, a wavelength normalized film thickness of the silicon oxide film, and a wavelength normalized film thickness of the IDT electrode, values are set so that at least one of a response intensity of a first higher order mode, corresponding to the response intensity of a second higher order mode, and of a response intensity of a third higher mode is greater than about −2.4.

An elastic wave device includes a supporting substrate including an upper surface including a recessed portion, a piezoelectric thin film on the supporting substrate to cover the recessed portion of the supporting substrate, an IDT electrode on a main surface of the piezoelectric thin film, the main surface being adjacent to the supporting substrate, and an intermediate layer on a main surface of the piezoelectric thin film, the main surface being remote from the supporting substrate. A space is defined by the supporting substrate and the piezoelectric thin film. The IDT electrode faces the space. Through holes are provided in the piezoelectric thin film and the intermediate layer to extend from a main surface of the intermediate layer to the space, the main surface being remote from the piezoelectric thin film. The elastic wave device further includes a cover member on the intermediate layer and covering opening ends of the through holes.

A method of printing comprises providing a component source wafer comprising components, a transfer device, and a patterned substrate. The patterned substrate comprises substrate posts that extend from a surface of the patterned substrate. Components are picked up from the component source wafer by adhering the components to the transfer device. One or more of the picked-up components are printed to the patterned substrate by disposing each of the one or more picked-up components onto one of the substrate posts, thereby providing one or more printed components in a printed structure.

An acoustic wave device includes a functional electrode provided on a first main surface of an element substrate, extended wiring lines that are electrically connected to the functional electrode and that are adjacent to each other on a second main surface facing away from the first main surface, external terminals that are connected to the extended wiring lines, respectively, and that are provided on the second main surface, a first resin portion that seals the acoustic wave device, and a second resin portion that is provided at a position which is between the element substrate and the first resin portion and which is on the second main surface.

Aspects of this disclosure relate to acoustic wave devices on stacked die. A first die can include first acoustic wave device configured to generate a boundary acoustic wave. A second die can include a second acoustic wave device configured to generate a second boundary acoustic wave, in which the second die is stacked with the first die. The first acoustic wave resonator can include a piezoelectric layer, an interdigital transducer electrode on the piezoelectric layer, and high acoustic velocity layers on opposing sides of the piezoelectric layer. The high acoustic velocity layers can each have an acoustic velocity that is greater than a velocity of the boundary acoustic wave.

An elastic wave device includes a support substrate made of silicon, a piezoelectric film disposed directly or indirectly on the support substrate, and an interdigital transducer electrode disposed on one surface of the piezoelectric film. A higher-order mode acoustic velocity of propagation through the piezoelectric film is equal or substantially equal to an acoustic velocity V.sub.si=(V.sub.1).sup.1/2 of propagation through silicon or higher than the acoustic velocity V.sub.si, where V.sub.si is specified by V.sub.1 among solutions V.sub.1, V.sub.2, and V.sub.3 with respect to x derived from Ax.sup.3+Bx.sup.2+Cx+D=0.

A method of making a micro-module structure comprises providing a substrate, the substrate having a substrate surface and comprising a substrate post protruding from the substrate surface. A component is disposed on the substrate post, the component having a component top side and a component bottom side opposite the component top side, the component bottom side disposed on the substrate post. The component extends over at least one edge of the substrate post. One or more component electrodes are disposed on the component.

An acoustic wave device comprises a substrate including a piezoelectric material, interdigital transducer (IDT) electrodes disposed on a surface of the substrate, the IDT electrodes having gap regions, edge regions, and center regions, a first dielectric film having a lower surface disposed on the IDT electrodes and the surface of the substrate, and a material having a density greater than a density of the first dielectric film disposed above the gap regions of the IDT electrodes.