Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a better method of forming a thin-film bulk acoustic resonator filter. SOLUTION: In the method of manufacturing a thin-film bulk acoustic resonator filer, a thin-film bulk acoustic resonator filter 10 includes a plurality of thin-film bulk acoustic resonators 38a to 38g series-connected and branched on the same film 35. The thin-film bulk acoustic resonators 38a to 38g are made of a single common lower conductive layer to have respective bottom electrodes of the thin-film bulk acoustic resonators. The single common conductive layer is provided to form respective upper electrodes of the thin-film bulk acoustic resonators 38a to 38g. A common piezoelectric thin-film layer, which may or may not be patterned, is formed as a thin film continuous as a single or not continuous. COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a better method for forming a thin film bulk acoustic resonator filter. SOLUTION: The film bulk acoustic resonator filter 10 is formed of a plurality of interconnected series and shunt film bulk acoustic resonators 38 formed on the same membrane 35. Each of the film bulk acoustic resonator 38 is formed of one common lower conductive layer which is defined to form a bottom electrode 32 of the film bulk acoustic resonator 38. The one common conductive layer is defined to form a top electrode 36 of each of the film bulk acoustic resonator 38. One common piezoelectric film layer 34 which may or may not be not patterned forms one continuous or discontinuous film. COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Abstract:
A vertical total internal reflection (TIR) mirror and fabrication thereof is made by creating a re-entrant profile using crystallographic silicon etching. Starting with an SOI wafer, a deep silicon etch is used to expose the buried oxide layer, which is then wet-etched (in HF), opening the bottom surface of the Si device layer. This bottom silicon surface is then exposed so that in a crystallographic etch, the resulting shape is a re-entrant trapezoid with facets. These facets can be used in conjunction with planar silicon waveguides to reflect the light upwards based on the TIR principle. Alternately, light can be coupled into the silicon waveguides from above the wafer for such purposes as wafer level testing.
Abstract:
A film bulk acoustic resonator filter may be formed with a plurality of interconnected series and shunt film bulk acoustic resonators formed on the same membrane. Each of the film bulk acoustic resonators may be formed from a common lower conductive layer which is defined to form the bottom electrode of each film bulk acoustic resonator. A common top conductive layer may be defined to form each top electrode of each film bulk acoustic resonator. A common piezoelectric film layer, that may or may not be patterned, forms a continuous or discontinuous film.
Abstract:
Methods of forming microelectronic structures are described. Embodiments of those methods may include forming a photomask on a (110) silicon wafer substrate, wherein the photomask comprises a periodic array of parallelogram openings, and then performing a timed wet etch on the (110) silicon wafer substrate to form a diffraction grating structure that is etched into the (110) silicon wafer substrate.
Abstract:
An apparatus and method of fabricating a through-wafer via. A first mask is formed over a first side of a first semiconductor die to define a first via area. A deep recess is etched through the first semiconductor die in the first via area and a blanket metal layer is formed over the first side including the deep recess. The blanket metal layer is removed from an outer surface of the first side of the first semiconductor die while retaining a portion of the blanket metal layer within the deep recess.
Abstract:
A film bulk acoustic resonator filter (10) may be formed with a plurality of interconnected series and shunt film bulk acoustic resonators (38) formed on the same membrane (35). Each of the film bulk acoustic resonators (38) may be formed from a common lower conductive layer which is defined to form the bottom electrode (32) of each film bulk acoustic resonator (38). A common top conductive layer may be defined to form each top electrode (36) of each film bulk acoustic resonator (38). A common piezoelectric film layer (34), that may or may not be patterned, forms a continuous or discontinuous film.
Abstract:
A MEMS device may be formed in a hermetic cavity by sealing a pair of semiconductor structures to one another, enclosing the MEMS device. The two structures may be coupled using surface mount techniques as one example, so that the temperatures utilized may be compatible with many MEMS applications. Electrical interconnection layers in one or the other of these structures may be utilized to allow electrical interconnections from the exterior world to the MEMS components within the cavity.
Abstract:
A solid state photonics circuit having a liquid crystal (LC) layer for beam steering. The LC layer can provide tuning of an array of waveguides by controlling the application of voltage to the liquid crystal. The application of voltage to the liquid crystal can be controlled to perform beam steering with the light signal based on different tuning in each of the waveguides of the array. The waveguides are disposed in a substrate having an oxide or other insulating layer with an opening. The opening in the oxide layer exposes a portion of a path of the array of waveguides. The waveguides are exposed to the liquid crystal through the oxide opening, which allows the voltage changes to the liquid crystal to tune the optical signals in the waveguides.
Abstract:
Inverted 45° semiconductor mirrors as vertical optical couplers for PIC chips, particularly optical receivers and transmitters. An inverted 45° semiconductor mirror functions to couple light between a plane in the PIC chip defined by thin film layers and a direction normal to a top surface of the PIC chip where it may be generated or collected by an off-chip component, such as a wire terminal. In an exemplary embodiment, a (110) plane of a cubic crystalline semiconductor may provide a 45° facet inverted relative to a (100) surface of the semiconductor from which light is to be emitted. In further embodiments, a (110) plane may be exposed by undercutting a device layer of a semiconductor on insulator (SOI) substrate. Alternatively, a pre-etched substrate surface may be bonded to a handling wafer, thinned, and then utilized for PIC waveguide formation.