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Granted Patent B2
US 9,246,467 · App. 13/484,931 · Granted Jan 26, 2016

Integrated resonator with a mass bias

Inventors: Byron Neville Burgess (Allen, TX); William Robert Krenik (Garland, TX); Stuart M. Jacobsen (Frisco, TX)
Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
H03H9/02102H03H9/02149H03H9/1007H03H9/175Y10T29/42
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Patent No.
US 9,246,467
App. No.
13/484,931
Granted
Jan 26, 2016
Kind
B2
Abstract

An integrated resonator apparatus includes a piezoelectric resonator and an acoustic Bragg reflector formed adjacent the piezoelectric resonator. The integrated resonator apparatus also includes a mass bias formed over the Bragg reflector on a side of the piezoelectric resonator opposite the piezoelectric resonator.

Claims (8)

1. An integrated resonator apparatus, comprising:

a piezoelectric resonator;

an acoustic Bragg reflector formed adjacent the piezoelectric resonator; and

a mass bias formed over the Bragg reflector on a side of the Bragg reflector opposite the piezoelectric resonator.

2. The integrated resonator apparatus of claim 1 wherein the mass bias comprises aluminum copper.

3. The integrated resonator apparatus of claim 1 further comprising a plurality of electrical contact pads for electrical contact to the piezoelectric resonator and formed of a material, and wherein the mass bias is formed of the same material as the contact pads.

4. The integrated resonator apparatus of claim 1 further comprising plastic mold fill encapsulating the mass bias, acoustic Bragg reflector, and piezoelectric resonator.

5. The integrated resonator apparatus of claim 1 wherein the mass bias is approximately 1 micron thick.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded May 31, 2012
From: BURGESS, BYRON NEVILLE; KRENIK, WILLIAM ROBERT; JACOBSEN, STUART M.
To: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
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Continuity (1)
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