Acoustic wave device structure, integrated structure of power amplifier and acoustic wave device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9998087-B2
Application number	US-201715415480-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jan 25, 2017
Priority date	Dec 30, 2014
Publication date	Jun 12, 2018
Grant date	Jun 12, 2018

Abstract

An integrated structure of power amplifier and acoustic wave device comprises: a compound semiconductor epitaxial substrate including an epitaxial structure formed on a compound semiconductor substrate, a power amplifier upper structure formed on a top-side of a left part of the compound semiconductor epitaxial substrate, and a film bulk acoustic resonator formed on the top-side of a right part of the compound semiconductor epitaxial substrate; wherein the left part of the compound semiconductor epitaxial substrate and the power amplifier upper structure form a power amplifier; the right part of the compound semiconductor epitaxial substrate and the film bulk acoustic resonator form an acoustic wave device; the integrated structure of power amplifier and acoustic wave device on the same compound semiconductor epitaxial substrate is capable of reducing the component size, optimizing the impedance matching, and reducing the signal loss between power amplifier and acoustic wave device.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An integrated structure of power amplifier and acoustic wave device, comprising:
a compound semiconductor epitaxial substrate including a compound semiconductor substrate and an epitaxial structure formed on said compound semiconductor substrate;
a power amplifier upper structure formed on a top-side of a left part of said compound semiconductor epitaxial substrate, wherein said left part of said compound semiconductor epitaxial substrate and said power amplifier upper structure form a power amplifier; and
a film bulk acoustic resonator formed on said top-side of a right part of said compound semiconductor epitaxial substrate, wherein said right part of said compound semiconductor epitaxial substrate and said film bulk acoustic resonator form an acoustic wave device, wherein said film bulk acoustic resonator comprises:
a supporting layer formed on said compound semiconductor epitaxial substrate, wherein said supporting layer has a supporting layer recess on the bottom of said supporting layer, said supporting layer has an upwardly protruding supporting layer mesa right above said supporting layer recess, and wherein said compound semiconductor epitaxial substrate has a substrate recess on the top of said compound semiconductor epitaxial substrate, said substrate recess is located right below said supporting layer recess, said supporting layer recess is communicated with said substrate recess, and said supporting layer recess and said substrate recess have a boundary therebetween and the boundary is the extended from the top surface of said compound semiconductor epitaxial substrate; and
a bulk acoustic resonator structure formed on said supporting layer, wherein said bulk acoustic resonator structure includes:
a bottom electrode formed on one end of said supporting layer, where said bottom electrode is formed on and at least extended along said supporting layer mesa;
a dielectric layer formed at least on said bottom electrode above said supporting layer mesa; and
a top electrode formed on the other end with respect to said bottom electrode, where said top electrode is formed on said dielectric layer or formed on both said dielectric layer and said supporting layer, and said top electrode is formed on and at least extended along said dielectric layer above said supporting layer mesa;
wherein the gap between said supporting layer mesa and the bottom of said substrate recess is increased by the communication of said supporting layer recess and said substrate recess, so as to avoid the contact of said supporting layer mesa and the bottom of said substrate recess when said film bulk acoustic resonator is affected by stress such that said supporting layer mesa is bended downwardly;
wherein, the integrated structure of said power amplifier and said acoustic wave device on the same said compound semiconductor epitaxial substrate is capable of reducing the component size, optimizing the impedance matching, and reducing the signal loss between said power amplifier and said acoustic wave device.

2. The integrated structure of power amplifier and acoustic wave device according to claim 1 , wherein said supporting layer recess has a depth between 10 nm and 3500 nm.

3. The integrated structure of power amplifier and acoustic wave device according to claim 2 , wherein said supporting layer recess has a depth between 10 nm and 1500 nm.

4. The integrated structure of power amplifier and acoustic wave device according to claim 1 , wherein said supporting layer recess has an opening smaller than or almost equal to that of said substrate recess.

5. The integrated structure of power amplifier and acoustic wave device according to claim 1 , wherein said film bulk acoustic resonator further comprises at least one etching recess, one end of said at least one etching recess is communicated with said supporting layer recess, the other end of said at least one etching recess penetrates said supporting layer or penetrates both said supporting layer and said bulk acoustic resonator structure such that said at least one etching recess is communicated with the outside, and thereby said supporting layer recess is communicated with the outside.

6. An integrated structure of power amplifier and acoustic wave device, comprising:
a compound semiconductor epitaxial substrate including a compound semiconductor substrate and an epitaxial structure formed on said compound semiconductor substrate, wherein said epitaxial structure includes:
a subcollector layer formed on said compound semiconductor substrate; and
a collector layer formed on said subcollector layer;
a power amplifier upper structure formed on a top-side of a left part of said compound semiconductor epitaxial substrate, wherein said left part of said compound semiconductor epitaxial substrate and said power amplifier upper structure form a power amplifier, wherein said power amplifier is a heterojunction bipolar transistor (HBT), wherein said left part of said compound semiconductor epitaxial substrate further comprises a collector recess, the bottom of said collector recess is said subcollector layer, and wherein said power amplifier upper structure includes:
a base layer formed on said collector layer;
an emitter ledge layer formed on said base layer;
an emitter layer formed on said emitter ledge layer;
a base electrode formed on said base layer and/or said emitter ledge layer;
an emitter electrode formed on said emitter layer; and
a collector electrode formed on said subcollector layer within said collector recess;
thereby said left part of said compound semiconductor epitaxial substrate includes: said compound semiconductor substrate, said subcollector layer, said collector layer and said collector recess; wherein said left part of said compound semiconductor epitaxial substrate and said power amplifier upper structure form said heterojunction bipolar transistor; and
a film bulk acoustic resonator formed on said top-side of a right part of said compound semiconductor epitaxial substrate, wherein said right part of said compound semiconductor epitaxial substrate and said film bulk acoustic resonator form an acoustic wave device;
wherein, the integrated structure of said power amplifier and said acoustic wave device on the same said compound semiconductor epitaxial substrate is capable of reducing the component size, optimizing the impedance matching, and reducing the signal loss between said power amplifier and said acoustic wave device.

7. The integrated structure of power amplifier and acoustic wave device according to claim 6 , wherein said collector layer is made of GaAs.

8. The integrated structure of power amplifier and acoustic wave device according to claim 6 , wherein said collector layer has a thickness between 500 nm and 3000 nm.

9. The integrated structure of power amplifier and acoustic wave device according to claim 6 , wherein said base layer is made of GaAs.

10. The integrated structure of power amplifier and acoustic wave device according to claim 6 , wherein said base layer has a thickness between 60 nm and 100 nm.

11. The integrated structure of power amplifier and acoustic wave device according to claim 6 , wherein said epitaxial structure further comprises an etching stop layer, wherein said etching stop layer is formed on said subcollector layer, and said collector layer is formed on said etching stop layer, wherein the bottom of said collector recess is said subcollector layer, said collector electrode is formed on said subcollector layer within said collector recess.

12. The integrated structure of power amplifier and acoustic wave device according to claim 11 , wherein said substrate rece

Assignees

• Win Semiconductors Corp

Inventors

• Tsai Shu-Hsiao
• Lin Re Ching
• Liao Pei-Chun
• Lin Cheng-Kuo
• Chin Yung-Chung

Classifications

• H03H9/02007 Primary

  of bulk acoustic wave devices · CPC title

• H03H9/0542 Primary

  consisting of a lateral arrangement (H03H9/0566 takes precedence) · CPC title

• H03H9/173

  Air-gaps · CPC title

• H03H9/13

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

• H01L27/20

  Electricity · mapped topic