Piezoelectric thin film resonator, filter and duplexer including a film inserted in the piezoelectric film

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9356573-B2
Application number	US-201414519803-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 21, 2014
Priority date	Nov 11, 2013
Publication date	May 31, 2016
Grant date	May 31, 2016

Abstract

A piezoelectric thin film resonator includes: a piezoelectric film provided on a substrate; a lower electrode and an upper electrode sandwiching at least a part of the piezoelectric film and facing with each other; and an inserted film that is inserted in the piezoelectric film, is provided in an outer circumference region of a resonance region and is not provided in a center region of the resonance region, wherein: an angle between an edge face of the lower electrode and a lower face of the lower electrode in the resonance region is an acute angle; and a width of the inserted film in the resonance region on a side for extracting the upper electrode from the resonance region is larger than another width of the inserted film in the resonance region on a side for extracting the lower electrode from the resonance region.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A piezoelectric thin film resonator comprising:
a substrate;
a piezoelectric film that is provided on the substrate;
a lower electrode and an upper electrode that sandwich at least a part of the piezoelectric film and face with each other; and
an inserted film that is inserted in the piezoelectric film, is provided in an outer circumference region of a resonance region in which the lower electrode and the upper electrode sandwich the piezoelectric film and face with each other and is not provided in a center region of the resonance region,
wherein:
an angle between an edge face of the lower electrode and a lower face of the lower electrode in the resonance region is an acute angle; and
a width of the inserted film in the resonance region on a side for extracting the upper electrode from the resonance region is larger than another width of the inserted film in the resonance region on a side for extracting the lower electrode from the resonance region.

2. The piezoelectric thin film resonator as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the angle is smaller than an angle between an edge face and a lower face of the upper electrode.

3. The piezoelectric thin film resonator as claimed in claim 1 , wherein a difference between the width of the inserted film in the resonance region on the side for extracting the upper electrode from the resonance region and the another width of the inserted film in the resonance region on the side for extracting the lower electrode from the resonance region is a length corresponding to a length of the edge face in a face direction of the substrate.

4. The piezoelectric thin film resonator as claimed in claim 1 , wherein Young's modulus of the inserted film is smaller than that of the piezoelectric film.

5. The piezoelectric thin film resonator as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the piezoelectric film includes aluminum nitride as a main component.

6. The piezoelectric thin film resonator as claimed in claim 1 , wherein a cavity is formed between the substrate and the lower electrode or between the substrate and an insulating film contacting the lower electrode, in the resonance region.

7. The piezoelectric thin film resonator as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the resonance region has a sound reflecting film that reflects an acoustic wave propagating in the piezoelectric film on an opposite side of the lower electrode with respect to the piezoelectric film.

8. A filter comprising a piezoelectric thin film resonator,
the piezoelectric thin film resonator comprising:
a substrate;
a piezoelectric film that is provided on the substrate;
a lower electrode and an upper electrode that sandwich at least a part of the piezoelectric film and face with each other; and
an inserted film that is inserted in the piezoelectric film, is provided in an outer circumference region of a resonance region in which the lower electrode and the upper electrode sandwich the piezoelectric film and face with each other and is not provided in a center region of the resonance region,
wherein:
an angle between an edge face of the lower electrode and a lower face of the lower electrode in the resonance region is an acute angle; and
a width of the inserted film in the resonance region on a side for extracting the upper electrode from the resonance region is larger than another width of the inserted film in the resonance region on a side for extracting the lower electrode from the resonance region.

9. A duplexer comprising:
a transmit filter; and
a receive filter,
wherein at least one of the transmit filter and the receive filter is a filter having a piezoelectric thin film resonator,
the piezoelectric thin film resonator comprising:
a substrate;
a piezoelectric film that is provided on the substrate;
a lower electrode and an upper electrode that sandwich at least a part of the piezoelectric film and face with each other; and
an inserted film that is inserted in the piezoelectric film, is provided in an outer circumference region of a resonance region in which the lower electrode and the upper electrode sandwich the piezoelectric film and face with each other and is not provided in a center region of the resonance region,
wherein:
an angle between an edge face of the lower electrode and a lower face of the lower electrode in the resonance region is an acute angle; and
a width of the inserted film in the resonance region on a side for extracting the upper electrode from the resonance region is larger than another width of the inserted film in the resonance region on a side for extracting the lower electrode from the resonance region.

Assignees

• Taiyo Yuden Kk

Inventors

• Yokoyama Tsuyoshi
• Nishihara Tokihiro
• Sakashita Takeshi

Classifications

• H03H9/706

  Duplexers · CPC title

• H03H9/13 Primary

  for networks consisting of piezoelectric or electrostrictive materials (for networks using surface acoustic waves H03H9/145) · CPC title

• H03H9/568

  consisting of a ladder configuration · CPC title

• H03H9/02118 Primary

  of lateral leakage between adjacent resonators · CPC title

• H01L41/18

  Electricity · mapped topic