H03H9/174

Transversely-excited film bulk acoustic resonator comprising small cells

Acoustic resonator devices are disclosed. An acoustic resonator device includes a plurality of cells electrically connected in parallel. Each cell includes an interdigital transducer (IDT) on a piezoelectric plate, the IDT having at least 15 and not more than 35 interleaved fingers.

RF ACOUSTIC WAVE RESONATORS INTEGRATED WITH HIGH ELECTRON MOBILITY TRANSISTORS INCLUDING A SHARED PIEZOELECTRIC/BUFFER LAYER
20230163743 · 2023-05-25 ·

An RF integrated circuit device can includes a substrate and a High Electron Mobility Transistor (HEMT) device on the substrate including a ScAlN layer configured to provide a buffer layer of the HEMT device to confine formation of a 2DEG channel region of the HEMT device. An RF piezoelectric resonator device can be on the substrate including the ScAlN layer sandwiched between a top electrode and a bottom electrode of the RF piezoelectric resonator device to provide a piezoelectric resonator for the RF piezoelectric resonator device.

WIRELESS COMMUNICATION INFRASTRUCTURE SYSTEM CONFIGURED WITH A SINGLE CRYSTAL PIEZO RESONATOR AND FILTER STRUCTURE USING THIN FILM TRANSFER PROCESS
20230114606 · 2023-04-13 ·

A system for a wireless communication infrastructure using single crystal devices. The wireless system can include a controller coupled to a power source, a signal processing module, and a plurality of transceiver modules. Each of the transceiver modules includes a transmit module configured on a transmit path and a receive module configured on a receive path. The transmit modules each include at least a transmit filter having one or more filter devices, while the receive modules each include at least a receive filter. Each of these filter devices includes a single crystal acoustic resonator device formed with a thin film transfer process with at least a first electrode material, a single crystal material, and a second electrode material. Wireless infrastructures using the present single crystal technology perform better in high power density applications, enable higher out of band rejection (OOBR), and achieve higher linearity as well.

RESONATOR SHAPES FOR BULK ACOUSTIC WAVE (BAW) DEVICES

A resonator circuit device. The present invention provides for improved resonator shapes using egg-shaped, partial egg-shaped, and asymmetrical partial egg-shaped resonator structures. These resonator shapes are configured to give less spurious mode/noise below the resonant frequency (F.sub.s) than rectangular, circular, and elliptical resonator shapes. These improved resonator shapes also provide filter layout flexibility, which allows for more compact resonator devices compared to resonator devices using conventionally shaped resonators.

METHOD FOR FORMING A PIEZOELECTRIC FILM

A piezoelectric film on a substrate is provided comprising an aluminum nitride (AlN) layer, and a Al.sub.1-x(J).sub.xN compound layer comprising a graded section with a lower (J) composition, x, adjacent to the AlN layer and a higher (J) composition, x, located away from the AlN layer, the said (J) being a singular element or a binary compound. A method for forming such a piezoelectric film is also provided. A surface acoustic wave resonator comprising such a piezoelectric film, a surface acoustic wave filter comprising such a piezoelectric film, a bulk acoustic wave resonator comprising such a piezoelectric film, and a bulk acoustic wave filter comprising such a piezoelectric film are also provided.

BULK ACOUSTIC RESONATOR WITH HEAT DISSIPATION STRUCTURE AND FABRICATION PROCESS
20230076029 · 2023-03-09 ·

A bulk acoustic resonator having a heat dissipation structure, and a fabrication process are provided according to the present application. The bulk acoustic resonator includes a substrate, a metal heat dissipation layer formed on the base substrate and provided with an insulating layer on the surface thereof, and a resonance functional layer formed on the insulating layer, where the metal heat dissipation layer and the insulating layer together define a cavity on the substrate, a side wall of the cavity is formed by the insulating layer, and a bottom electrode layer in the resonance function layer covers the cavity.

FILTER FOR 5 GHZ WI-FI USING TRANSVERSELY-EXCITED FILM BULK ACOUSTIC RESONATORS
20220337224 · 2022-10-20 ·

A 5 GHz Wi-Fi bandpass filter includes a ladder filter circuit with two or more shunt transversely-excited film bulk acoustic resonators (XBARs) and two or more series XBARs. Each of the two or more shunt XBARS includes a diaphragm having an LN-equivalent thickness greater than or equal to 360 nm, and each of the two or more series XBARS includes a diaphragm having an LN-equivalent thickness less than or equal to 375 nm.

Transversely-excited film bulk acoustic resonators with interdigital transducer configured to reduce diaphragm stress

Acoustic resonators are disclosed. An acoustic resonator includes a substrate having a surface and a single-crystal piezoelectric plate having front and back surfaces. The back surface is attached to the surface of the substrate except for a portion of the piezoelectric plate forming a diaphragm spanning a cavity in the substrate. An interdigital transducer (IDT) is formed on the front surface of the piezoelectric plate. The IDT includes: a first busbar and a second busbar disposed on respective portions of the piezoelectric plate other than the diaphragm; a first set of elongate fingers extending from the first bus bar onto the diaphragm; and a second set of elongate fingers extending from the second bus bar onto the diaphragm, the second set of elongate fingers interleaved with the first set of elongate fingers.

SOLID REFLECTION-TYPE BULK ACOUSTIC RESONATOR AND PREPARATION METHOD THEREOF
20220321078 · 2022-10-06 ·

The present invention provides a preparation method of solid reflection-type bulk acoustic resonator, including the following steps: taking a piece of ion-implanted piezoelectric material, growing reflecting layers below the implantation face of the piezoelectric material and/or above the substrate, then taking a substrate, and bonding it to the piezoelectric material; heating the bonded intermediate product gained to strip the film from the piezoelectric material and growing an upper electrode on the stripped side of the piezoelectric material. According to the preparation method of solid reflection-type bulk acoustic resonator disclosed in the present invention, resonators with high strength and good performance can be prepared by using wafer bonding and lay transfer technique for preparing high-quality piezoelectric films and combining the solid reflecting layer structure.

ACOUSTIC WAVE DEVICE

An acoustic wave device includes a piezoelectric film and an IDT electrode on the piezoelectric film. The IDT electrode includes first and second busbars, at least one first electrode finger, and at least one second electrode finger. When an overlap region is defined as a region in which the first and second electrode fingers overlap each other in an acoustic wave propagation direction, points A2, B2, C2, and D2, defined as follows, are all outside the cavity when, at the points A2, B2, C2, and D2, xa>about 25 μm, ya>about 25 μm, xb>about 25 μm, yb>about 25 μm, xc>about 25 μm, yc>about 25 μm, xd>about 25 μm, and yd>about 25 μm.