Patent ID: 7696675

Claim:
A surface acoustic wave device, comprising: a quartz substrate; and at least a single-type IDT electrode having a plurality of electrode fingers provided on a surface of the quartz substrate for exciting a Rayleigh surface acoustic wave in the upper limit mode of the surface acoustic wave stop band with the following relationships being satisfied; φ=0°, 110°≦140°, and 38°≦|ψ|≦44°, when the quartz substrate has cut angles, a surface acoustic wave propagation direction represented by Euler angles (φ, θ, ψ), and an electrode thickness relative to wavelength, set such that H/λ≧ 0.1796η 3 −0.4303η 2 +0.2071η+0.0682, wherein the thickness of the IDT electrode is defined as H, the width of an electrode finger of the IDT electrode is defined as d, the pitch between the electrode fingers of the IDT electrode is defined as P, the wavelength of the surface acoustic wave is defined as λ, and where η=d/P; and with the surface acoustic wave device further comprising: a reflector having electrode fingers on both sides of the IDT electrode in a relationship with the electrode fingers of the IDT electrode as follows: P/Pr>1, where P defines the pitch between the electrode fingers of the IDT electrode and Pr defines the pitch between the electrode fingers of the reflector.