A method of manufacture and structure for an acoustic resonator device having a hybrid piezoelectric stack with a strained single crystal layer and a thermally-treated polycrystalline layer. The method can include forming a strained single crystal piezoelectric layer overlying the nucleation layer and having a strain condition and piezoelectric layer parameters, wherein the strain condition is modulated by nucleation growth parameters and piezoelectric layer parameters to improve one or more piezoelectric properties of the strained single crystal piezoelectric layer. Further, the method can include forming a polycrystalline piezoelectric layer overlying the strained single crystal piezoelectric layer, and performing a thermal treatment on the polycrystalline piezoelectric layer to form a recrystallized polycrystalline piezoelectric layer. The resulting device with this hybrid piezoelectric stack exhibits improved electromechanical coupling and wide bandwidth performance.

A packaged electronic component comprising: an electronic component housed within a package comprising a front part of a package comprising an inner section with a front cavity therein opposite the electronic component defined by the raised frame and an outer section sealing said cavity; and a back part of the package comprising a back cavity in an inner back section, and an outer back section sealing the cavity, said back package further comprising a first and a second via through the back end around said at least one back cavity for coupling to front and back electrodes of the electronic component; the vias terminating in external contact pads adapted to couple the package in a flip chip configuration to a circuit board.

The invention combines two filter technologies on a single device using the same substrate there for. On this substrate a filter circuit is arranged that has a ladder-type or a lattice arrangement of series and parallel impedance elements to provide a hybrid filter having for example a band pass function. The impedance elements are chosen from BAW resonators and LC elements.

A front-end module (FEM) for a 6.1 GHz Wi-Fi acoustic wave resonator RF filter circuit. The device can include a power amplifier (PA), a 6.1 GHz resonator, and a diversity switch. The device can further include a low noise amplifier (LNA). The PA is electrically coupled to an input node and can be configured to a DC power detector or an RF power detector. The resonator can be configured between the PA and the diversity switch, or between the diversity switch and an antenna. The LNA may be configured to the diversity switch or be electrically isolated from the switch. Another 6.1 GHZ resonator may be configured between the diversity switch and the LNA. In a specific example, this device integrates a 6.1 GHz PA, a 6.1 GHZ bulk acoustic wave (BAW) RF filter, a single pole two throw (SP2T) switch, and a bypassable LNA into a single device.

The invention relates to a simple to produce electric component for chips with sensitive component structures. Said component comprises a connection structure and a switching structure on the underside of the chip and a support substrate with at least one polymer layer.

A method for packaging chips includes: flip-chip bonding a plurality of filter chips to be packaged on a substrate to be packaged; applying a first mold material layer on the filter chips to be packaged; applying a second mold material layer on a side of the first mold material layer away from the filter chip to be packaged, the first mold material layer and the second mold material layer forming a first mold layer; thinning the first mold material layer and the second mold material layer to expose substrates of the filter chips to be packaged, and thinning the substrates of the filter chips to be packaged to a preset thickness; applying a second mold layer on the exposed substrates of the filter chips to be packaged to obtain a mold structure; and cutting the mold structure into a plurality of particle chips.

A method of wafer scale packaging acoustic resonator devices and an apparatus therefor. The method including providing a partially completed semiconductor substrate comprising a plurality of single crystal acoustic resonator devices, each having a first electrode member, a second electrode member, and an overlying passivation material. At least one of the devices to be configured with an external connection, a repassivation material overlying the passivation material, an under metal material overlying the repassivation material. Copper pillar interconnect structures are then configured overlying the electrode members, and solder bump structures are form overlying the copper pillar interconnect structures.

An RF diplexer circuit device using modified lattice, lattice, and ladder circuit topologies. The diplexer can include a pair of filter circuits, each with a plurality of series resonator devices and shunt resonator devices. In the ladder topology, the series resonator devices are connected in series while shunt resonator devices are coupled in parallel to the nodes between the resonator devices. In the lattice topology, a top and a bottom serial configurations each includes a plurality of series resonator devices, and a pair of shunt resonators is cross-coupled between each pair of a top serial configuration resonator and a bottom serial configuration resonator. The modified lattice topology adds baluns or inductor devices between top and bottom nodes of the top and bottom serial configurations of the lattice configuration. A multiplexing device or inductor device can be configured to select between the signals coming through the first and second filter circuits.

An RF diplexer circuit device using modified lattice, lattice, and ladder circuit topologies. The diplexer can include a pair of filter circuits, each with a plurality of series resonator devices and shunt resonator devices. In the ladder topology, the series resonator devices are connected in series while shunt resonator devices are coupled in parallel to the nodes between the resonator devices. In the lattice topology, a top and a bottom serial configurations each includes a plurality of series resonator devices, and a pair of shunt resonators is cross-coupled between each pair of a top serial configuration resonator and a bottom serial configuration resonator. The modified lattice topology adds baluns or inductor devices between top and bottom nodes of the top and bottom serial configurations of the lattice configuration. A multiplexing device or inductor device can be configured to select between the signals coming through the first and second filter circuits.

Acoustic filters are disclosed. A bandpass filter has a passband between a lower band edge and an upper band edge. The bandpass filter includes a plurality of transversely-excited film bulk acoustic resonators (XBARs) connected in a ladder filter circuit. The plurality of XBARs includes at least one lithium tantalate XBAR and at least one lithium niobate XBAR.