Abstract:
Provided is a surface acoustic wave device in which a temperature characteristic of frequency can be effectively improved without a significant narrowing of a fractional bandwidth and a significant insertion loss. A surface acoustic wave device 1 includes a piezoelectric substrate 2, at least one interdigital transducer (IDT) electrode 3 formed on the piezoelectric substrate 2, and an insulator layer 6 for improving a temperature characteristic formed so as to cover the IDT electrode 3. When a surface of the insulator layer 6 is classified into a first surface region under which the IDT electrode is positioned and a second surface region under which no IDT electrode is positioned, the surface of the insulator layer in at least one portion of the second surface region is higher than the surface of the insulator layer from the piezoelectric substrate 2 in at least one portion of the first surface region by 0.001λ or more, where the wavelength of an acoustic wave is λ.
Abstract:
There is provided an acoustic wave element that enables an improvement of resonance characteristics at the vicinity of a resonance frequency and that prevents short-circuit failure between electrode fingers and degradation in insulation properties. In an acoustic wave element (1), an IDT electrode (3) is in contact with a piezoelectric material. The IDT electrode (3) includes a plurality of electrode fingers. The plurality of electrode fingers include first and second electrode fingers (31 and 32) that adjoin each other in an acoustic wave propagation direction and that connect to different potentials and a first dummy electrode finger (34) facing the first electrode finger (31) via a gap (33) placed on an outer side in an electrode finger length direction of the first electrode finger (31). At the vicinity of the gap, first protrusions (11 to 14) are provided in at least one of the first electrode finger (31) and the first dummy electrode finger (34), the first protrusion protruding in the acoustic wave propagation direction from at least one of side edges of the electrode finger.