IP Library Granted Patent US 9,246,461
Granted Patent B2
US 9,246,461 · App. 13/380,995 · Granted Jan 26, 2016

Manufacturing method of piezoelectric-body film, and piezoelectric-body film manufactured by the manufacturing method

Inventors: Morito Akiyama (Saga, JP); Kazuhiko Kano (Aichi-ken, JP); Akihiko Teshigahara (Aichi-ken, JP)
Assignees: DENSO CORPORATION; NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
H03H3/02C23C14/0036C23C14/0617C23C14/0641Y10T428/24355
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Patent No.
US 9,246,461
App. No.
13/380,995
Granted
Jan 26, 2016
Kind
B2
Abstract

A method for manufacturing a piezoelectric thin film including an aluminum nitride thin film containing scandium on a substrate, the method includes: sputtering step for sputtering aluminum and scandium under an atmosphere containing at least a nitrogen gas. In the sputtering step in the method according to the present invention, a scandium content rate falls within the range from 0.5% by atom to 50% by atom when a temperature of the substrate falls within the range from 5° C. to 450° C. during the sputtering step.

Claims (6)

1. A method for manufacturing a piezoelectric thin film including a substrate on which an aluminum nitride thin film containing scandium is provided, the method comprising:

an aluminum nitride sputtering step for sputtering aluminum and scandium so as to form, directly on the substrate, the aluminum nitride thin film containing scandium, under an atmosphere containing at least a nitrogen gas, a scandium content rate falls within the range from more than 35% by atom to less than 40% by atom when the number of atoms of scandium and the number of atoms of aluminum of the aluminum nitride thin film are 100% by atom in total,

the substrate having a temperature within the range from 200° C. to 400° C. during the sputtering step, and

wherein the substrate consists of a silicon monocrystal or a silicon monocrystal having a polycrystalline film thereon.

2. The method for manufacturing a piezoelectric thin film including a substrate on which an aluminum nitride thin film containing scandium is provided according to claim 1 , wherein the temperature of the substrate during the sputtering step is 400° C.

3. The method for manufacturing a piezoelectric thin film including a substrate on which an aluminum nitride thin film containing scandium is provided according to claim 1 , wherein the polycrystalline film comprises silicon or diamond.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Dec 27, 2011
From: AKIYAMA, MORITO; KANO, KAZUHIKO; TESHIGAHARA, AKIHIKO
To: NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY; DENSO CORPORATION
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Priority Claims (1)
JP 2009-157031 · Jul 1, 2009 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20120107557A1 · May 3, 2012