An acoustic wave device includes: a substrate; a pad formed on the substrate; a cap formed of an inorganic insulating material and located on the substrate, the cap including a cavity located in a surface of the cap at a substrate side and a penetration hole formed in a location overlapping with the pad; a terminal filling the penetration hole, coupled to the pad on the substrate, and formed of solder; and a functional element formed on an upper surface of the substrate and in the cavity, the functional element exciting an acoustic wave.

A method and structure for a transfer process for an acoustic resonator device. In an example, a bulk acoustic wave resonator (BAWR) with an air reflection cavity is formed. A piezoelectric thin film is grown on a crystalline substrate. Patterned electrodes are deposited on the surface of the piezoelectric film. An etched sacrificial layer is deposited over the electrodes and a planarized support layer is deposited over the sacrificial layer. The device can include a dielectric protection layer (DPL) that protects the piezoelectric layer from etching processes that can produce rough surfaces and reduces parasitic capacitance around the perimeter of the resonator when the DPL's dielectric constant is lower than that of the piezoelectric layer. The DPL can be configured between the top electrode and the piezoelectric layer, between the bottom electrode and the piezoelectric layer, or both.

Acoustic resonator devices and filters are disclosed. A piezoelectric plate is attached to a substrate, a portion of the piezoelectric plate forming a diaphragm spanning a cavity in the substrate. A first conductor pattern is formed on a surface of the piezoelectric plate. The first conductor pattern includes interleaved fingers of an interdigital transducer disposed on the diaphragm, and a first plurality of contact pads. A second conductor pattern is formed on a surface of a base, the second conductor pattern including a second plurality of contact pads. Each pad of the first plurality of contact pads is connected to a respective pad of the second plurality of contact pads. A seal is formed between a perimeter of the piezoelectric plate and a perimeter of the base.

Aspects of this disclosure relate to methods of manufacturing bulk acoustic wave components. Such methods include plasma dicing to singulate individual bulk acoustic wave components. A buffer layer can be formed over a substrate of bulk acoustic wave components such that streets are exposed. The bulk acoustic wave components can be plasma diced along the exposed streets to thereby singulate the bulk acoustic wave components

A method and structure for a transfer process for an acoustic resonator device. In an example, a bulk acoustic wave resonator (BAWR) with an air reflection cavity is formed. A piezoelectric thin film is grown on a crystalline substrate. One or more patterned electrodes are deposited on the surface of the piezoelectric film. An etched sacrificial layer is deposited over the one or more electrodes and a planarized support layer is deposited over the sacrificial layer. The support layer is etched to form one or more cavities overlying the electrodes to expose the sacrificial layer. The sacrificial layer is etched to release the cavities around the electrodes. Then, a cap layer is fusion bonded to the support layer to enclose the electrodes in the support layer cavities.

A multi-stage matching network filter circuit device. The device comprises bulk acoustic wave (BAW) resonator device having an input node, an output node, and a ground node. A first matching network circuit is coupled to the input node. A second matching network circuit is coupled to the output node. A ground connection network circuit coupled to the ground node. The first or second matching network circuit can include an inductive ladder network including a plurality of series inductors in a series configuration and a plurality of grounded inductors wherein each of the plurality of grounded inductors is coupled to the connection between each connected pair of series inductors. The inductive ladder network can include one or more LC tanks, wherein each of the one or more LC tanks is coupled between a connection between a series inductor and a subsequent series inductor, which is also coupled to a grounded inductor.

The invention specifies an electronic component which has a first electrode (10), a second electrode (20), an active region (30), which is electrically coupled to the first electrode (10) and to the second electrode (20), and a housing (100), wherein the housing (100) contains carbon layers which are monoatomic at least in subregions.

An acoustic resonator filter includes at least one series acoustic resonator electrically connected between a first port and a second port in series, through which a radio frequency (RF) signal passes; at least one second shunt acoustic resonator electrically shunt-connected between the at least one series acoustic resonator and a ground; and at least one first shunt acoustic resonator electrically shunt-connected between the at least one series acoustic resonator and a ground and having a resonance frequency higher than a resonance frequency of the at least one second shunt acoustic resonator. At least one shunt acoustic resonator, among the at least one first shunt acoustic resonator and the at least one second shunt acoustic resonator has a temperature coefficient of frequency (TCF) corresponding to resonance frequency sensitivity more insensitive than resonance frequency sensitivity according to a change in temperature of the at least one series acoustic resonator filter.

An acoustic wave resonator package includes an acoustic resonator comprising an acoustic wave generator on a surface of a substrate, a cover member disposed over the acoustic wave generator, a bonding member, disposed between the substrate and the cover member, to bond the substrate and the cover member to each other, and a wiring layer, disposed along surfaces of the cover member, connected to the acoustic resonator. Among the surfaces of the cover member, bonding surfaces to which the bonding member and the wiring layer are bonded at least partially have a roughness Rz in a range of 70 nm to 3.5 .Math.m.

Acoustic wave devices are disclosed. An acoustic wave device can include a first filter and a second filter coupled to a common node. The second filter includes acoustic wave resonators of a first type (e.g., bulk acoustic wave resonators) and a series acoustic wave resonator of the second type (e.g., a surface acoustic wave resonator) that is coupled between the acoustic wave resonators of the first type and the common node. The acoustic wave device can further include a loop circuit coupled to the first filter, in which the loop circuit is configured to generate an anti-phase signal to a target signal at a particular frequency. In certain embodiments, the first filter is a receive filter and the second filter is a transmit filter.