Patent ID: 8237326

Claim:
A surface acoustic wave device, comprising: an interdigital transducer at least serving as an electrode pattern to excite a Rayleigh surface acoustic wave, the interdigital transducer including a comb-tooth-shaped electrode having a plurality of electrode fingers; a piezoelectric substrate on which the interdigital transducer is formed, the piezoelectric substrate being made of a quartz substrate that is cut out at a cut angle represented by an Euler angle representation (φ, θ, ψ) of (0°, 95°≦θ≦155°, 33°≦|ψ|≦46°); electrode finger grooves formed between the electrode fingers of the comb-tooth-shaped electrode; electrode finger bases being quartz portions sandwiched between the electrode finger grooves and having upper surfaces on which the electrode fingers are positioned, wherein the surface acoustic wave device provides an excitation in an upper limit mode of a stop band of the surface acoustic wave; a reflector formed at both sides of the interdigital transducer so as to sandwich the interdigital transducer in a propagation direction of the surface acoustic wave on a surface of the quartz substrate, the reflector including conductor strips; conductor strip grooves formed between the conductor strips; and conductor strip bases being sandwiched between the conductor strip grooves and having upper surfaces on which the conductor strips are formed, wherein: the material forming the interdigital transducer is at least one of aluminum, silver, tungsten, tantalum, copper, and an alloy including one of these materials as a main constituent, the material forming the reflector is at least one of aluminum, silver, tungsten, tantalum, copper, and an alloy including one of these materials as a main constituent, and fr 1 <ft 2 <fr 2 is satisfied, where an upper end frequency of a stop band of the interdigital transducer is ft 2 , a lower end frequency of a stop band of the reflector is fr 1 , and an upper end frequency of the stop band of the reflector is fr 2 .