Electronic device
An electronic device in which a signal electrode has a bent portion. Earth electrodes are formed with the signal electrode between. A width of a gap at the bent portion between the signal electrode and each earth electrode is narrower than a width of a gap at both ends of the bent portion between the signal electrode and each earth electrode.
1. An electronic device comprising:
a signal electrode having a bent portion; and
earth electrodes formed with the signal electrode therebetween,
wherein a gap at the bent portion between the signal electrode and each earth electrode is narrower than a gap at both ends of the bent portion between the signal electrode and each earth electrode.
2. The electronic device according to claim 1 , wherein the signal electrode and the earth electrodes are formed over or in a ferroelectric substrate.
3. The electronic device according to claim 1 , wherein a plurality of signal electrodes are formed.
4. The electronic device according to claim 1 , further comprising an optical waveguide formed over a substrate, wherein the gap at the bent portion between the signal electrode and each earth electrode is narrower than the gap at both ends of the bent portion between the signal electrode and each earth electrode in a front portion of an interaction area in which the signal electrode interferes with the optical waveguide.
5. The electronic device according to claim 1 , wherein the gap at the bent portion between the signal electrode and each earth electrode is narrower than distance between the signal electrode and a ground layer formed on a reverse of a substrate or in the substrate.
6. The electronic device according to claim 1 , wherein the gap at the bent portion between the signal electrode and each earth electrode is narrower than thickness of a substrate.
7. The electronic device according to claim 1 , wherein the gap at the bent portion between the signal electrode and each earth electrode gradually narrows from both ends of the bent portion.
8. The electronic device according to claim 1 , wherein the bent portion bends at right angles.
9. The electronic device according to claim 1 , wherein of inner and outer gaps at the bent portion between the signal electrode and the earth electrodes, only the outer gap at the bent portion is narrower than the outer gap at both ends of the bent portion.
10. The electronic device according to claim 1 , wherein width of the signal electrode at the bent portion is narrower than the width of the signal electrode at both ends of the bent portion.
11. The electronic device according to claim 1 , wherein thickness at the bent portion of the signal electrode and the earth electrodes is thinner than the thickness at both ends of the bent portion of the signal electrode and the earth electrodes.
12. The electronic device according to claim 1 , wherein thickness at the bent portion of the earth electrodes is thinner than the thickness at both ends of the bent portion of the earth electrodes.
13. The electronic device according to claim 1 , wherein a buffer layer is formed at the bent portion between the signal electrode and the earth electrodes and a substrate.
14. The electronic device according to claim 1 , wherein a buffer layer is formed between the signal electrode and the earth electrodes and a substrate except at the bent portion.
15. The electronic device according to claim 4 , wherein a buffer layer is formed over the optical waveguide.
16. The electronic device according to claim 1 , wherein:
a buffer layer is formed between the signal electrode and the earth electrodes and a substrate; and
thickness at the bent portion of the buffer layer is thicker than the thickness in another area of the buffer layer.
17. The electronic device according to claim 1 , wherein grooves are formed in a substrate on both sides of the bent portion of the signal electrode.
18. The electronic device according to claim 1 , wherein:
grooves are formed in a substrate on both sides of the signal electrode; and
the grooves at the bent portion are deeper than the grooves in another area.
19. The electronic device according to claim 1 , wherein:
grooves are formed in a substrate on both sides of the signal electrode; and
width at the bent portion of the grooves is wider than the width in another area of the grooves.
20. The electronic device according to claim 1 , wherein:
grooves are formed in a substrate on both sides of the signal electrode; and
distance at the bent portion between the signal electrode and each groove is shorter than the distance in another area between the signal electrode and each groove.
21. The electronic device according to claim 1 , wherein the earth electrodes formed with the signal electrode therebetween are connected at the bent portion by wires or vias.
22. The electronic device according to claim 1 , wherein a portion of the gap extending from one end of the bent portion has a different width from a portion of the gap extending from an other end of the bent portion.
23. The electronic device according to claim 22 , wherein the gap between the signal electrode and each earth electrode gradually narrows from the one end of the bent portion to the other end.
24. The electronic device according to claim 1 , wherein a portion of the signal electrode extending from one end of the bent portion has a different width from a portion of the signal electrode extending from an other end of the bent portion.
25. The electronic device according to claim 24 , wherein width of the signal electrode gradually narrows from the one end of the bent portion to the other end.
26. An electronic device comprising:
a first electrode having a bent portion; and
second electrodes formed with the first electrode between,
wherein a gap at the bent portion between the first electrode and each second electrode is narrower than the gap at both ends of the bent portion between the first electrode and each second electrode.