Granted Patent B2

US 7,479,851 · App. 11/930,955 · Granted Jan 20, 2009

Abstract

Claims (20)

1. A piezoelectric component comprising at least two stacked crystal filters on a substrate, each stacked crystal filter comprising a bottom electrode, a first piezoelectric layer arranged above the bottom electrode, a central electrode arranged above the first piezoelectric layer, a second piezoelectric layer arranged above the central electrode, and a top electrode arranged above the second piezoelectric layer, wherein the bottom electrodes are directly connected to one another and the central electrodes are directly connected to one another, and wherein at least one of the stacked crystal filters has at least one contact hole extending through the top electrode and the upper piezoelectric layer and via which the central electrode can be connected to a predetermined potential by means of at least one electrically conductive material.

2. The piezoelectric component as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the bottom electrodes are ungrounded.

3. The piezoelectric component as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the electrical potential of the bottom electrodes is not defined.

4. The piezoelectric component as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the bottom electrodes are directly connected to one another via a single layer.

5. The piezoelectric component as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the central electrodes are directly connected to one another via a single layer.

6. The piezoelectric component as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the top electrode of at least one of the stacked crystal filters is connected to a signal input while the top electrode of the remaining stacked crystal filters is connected to a signal output.

7. The piezoelectric component as claimed in claim 1 , further comprising at least one lower acoustic mirror arranged below the bottom electrodes.

8. The piezoelectric component as claimed in claim 1 , further comprising at least one upper acoustic mirror arranged above the top electrodes.

9. The piezoelectric component as claimed in claim 8 , wherein the upper acoustic mirror is formed from at least one electrically conductive material.

10. The piezoelectric component as claimed in claim 9 , wherein the upper acoustic mirror is directly conductively connected to the top electrodes.

11. The piezoelectric component as claimed in claim 1 , wherein, in at least one of the stacked crystal filters, the bottom electrode, the first piezoelectric layer, the central electrode, the second piezoelectric layer and the top electrode form a layer stack, whose layer thickness corresponds approximately to half the wavelength of the mechanical oscillation of the stacked crystal filter.

12. The piezoelectric component as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the at least one electrically conductive material connects the central electrode to the predetermined potential and also forms at least part of an upper acoustic mirror.

13. The piezoelectric component as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the top electrode of a first one of the stacked crystal filters is connected to a signal input, the top electrode of a second one of the stacked crystal filters is connected to a signal output and the central electrodes of the first and second stacked crystal filters are grounded to form a two-stage single-ended narrowband filter.

14. The piezoelectric component as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the piezoelectric component comprises at least one four stage filter, comprising four stacked crystal filters, the top electrode of a first one of the stacked crystal filters is connected to a signal input, the top electrode of a second one of the stacked crystal filters is connected to the top electrode of a third one of the stacked crystal filters, the top electrode of a fourth one of the stacked crystal filters is connected to a signal output, the bottom electrodes of each two stacked crystal filters are directly connected to one another, and the central electrodes of the first, second, third and fourth stacked crystal filters are grounded to form two series-connected two-stage single-ended narrowband filters.

15. The piezoelectric component as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the top electrode of a first one of the stacked crystal filters is connected to a signal input, the top electrode of a second one of the stacked crystal filters is connected to a signal output, the central electrodes of the stacked crystal filters are grounded, and the impedance of the first stacked crystal filter is less than the impedance of the second stacked crystal filter to form an impedance transformer.

16. The piezoelectric component as claimed in claim 15 , wherein, the first piezoelectric layer of the first stacked crystal filter is thinner than the piezoelectric layer of the second stacked crystal filter.

17. The piezoelectric component as claimed in claim 15 , wherein the bottom and the top electrodes have a different areal form and/or areal content.

18. The piezoelectric component as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the top electrode of a first one of the stacked crystal filters is connected to a signal input, the top electrodes of a second and third one of the stacked crystal filters are connected to a signal output, the bottom electrodes of the first, second and third stacked crystal filters are directly connected to one another and the central electrodes of the first, second and third stacked crystal filters are directly connected to one another and grounded to form a power divider.

19. The piezoelectric component as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the piezoelectric component comprises at least one balanced filter, comprising four stacked crystal filters, the central electrodes of which are directly connected to one another and the bottom electrodes of each two stacked crystal filters are directly connected to one another, thereby forming two stacked crystal filter pairs, and, in each stacked crystal filter pair, one top electrode is connected to a signal input and the other top electrode is connected to a signal output.

20. The piezoelectric component as claimed in claim 19 , wherein the central electrodes are grounded.

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