IP Library Granted Patent US 9,172,025
Granted Patent B2
US 9,172,025 · App. 14/713,327 · Granted Oct 27, 2015

Integrated semiconductor devices with single crystalline beam, methods of manufacture and design structure

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Patent No.
US 9,172,025
App. No.
14/713,327
Granted
Oct 27, 2015
Kind
B2
Abstract

Bulk acoustic wave filters and/or bulk acoustic resonators integrated with CMOS devices, are provided. The structure includes a single crystalline beam formed from a silicon layer of a silicon on insulator (SOI) substrate; insulator material coating the single crystalline beam; an upper cavity formed above the single crystalline beam, over a portion of the insulator material; a lower cavity formed in lower wafer bonded to an insulator layer of the SOI substrate, below the single crystalline beam and the insulator layer of the SOI substrate; a connecting via that connects the upper cavity to the lower cavity, the connecting via being coated with the insulator material; and a Bulk Acoustic Wave (BAW) filter or Bulk Acoustic Resonator (BAR) in electrical connection with the single crystalline beam.

Claims (21)

1. A structure, comprising:

a single crystalline beam formed from a silicon layer of a silicon on insulator (SOI) substrate;

insulator material coating the single crystalline beam;

an upper cavity formed above the single crystalline beam, over a portion of the insulator material;

a lower cavity formed in lower wafer bonded to an insulator layer of the SOI substrate, below the single crystalline beam and the insulator layer of the SOI substrate;

a connecting via that connects the upper cavity to the lower cavity, the connecting via being coated with the insulator material; and

a Bulk Acoustic Wave (BAW) filter or Bulk Acoustic Resonator (BAR) in electrical connection with the single crystalline beam.

2. The structure of claim 1 , wherein the lower wafer is a back end of the line wafer.

3. The structure of claim 1 , wherein the insulator material is oxide.

4. The structure of claim 1 , wherein the BAW filter or the BAR comprises at least one layer of metal and piezoelectric material formed over the single crystalline silicon beam.

5. The structure of claim 4 , wherein the connecting via is formed through the at least one layer of metal, the piezoelectric material, and the single crystalline silicon beam.

6. The structure of claim 5 , wherein the insulator material coats exposed portions of the at least one layer of metal, the piezoelectric material and the single crystalline silicon beam within the connecting via.

7. The structure of claim 1 , wherein the single crystalline beam is a single crystalline silicon layer of the SOI substrate.

8. The structure of claim 7 , further comprising patterned layers of metal and piezoelectric material over the single crystalline silicon layer of the SOI substrate.

9. The structure of claim 8 , wherein the patterned layers of metal and piezoelectric material comprises:

a first metal layer over the insulator layer formed on the single crystalline beam;

the piezoelectric material on the first metal layer; and

a second metal layer on the piezoelectric material.

10. The structure of claim 9 , further comprising:

one or more devices in the single crystalline silicon layer of the SOI substrate, separated from the single crystalline beam by one or more shallow trench isolation structures; and

the Bulk Acoustic Wave (BAW) filter or Bulk Acoustic Resonator (BAR) are in electrical connection with at least one of the one or more devices.

Assignments (5)
RELEASE OF SECURITY INTEREST Recorded Nov 20, 2020
From: WILMINGTON TRUST, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION
To: GLOBALFOUNDRIES INC.
Reel/Frame 054636/0001 →
SECURITY AGREEMENT Recorded Nov 29, 2018
From: GLOBALFOUNDRIES INC.
To: WILMINGTON TRUST, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION
Reel/Frame 049490/0001 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Oct 5, 2015
From: GLOBALFOUNDRIES U.S. 2 LLC; GLOBALFOUNDRIES U.S. INC.
To: GLOBALFOUNDRIES INC.
Reel/Frame 036779/0001 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Sep 3, 2015
From: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
To: GLOBALFOUNDRIES U.S. 2 LLC
Reel/Frame 036550/0001 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded May 15, 2015
From: HARAME, DAVID L.; LUCE, STEPHEN E.; STAMPER, ANTHONY K.
To: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 035649/0504 →