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Granted Patent B2
US 11,785,857 · App. 16/937,966 · Granted Oct 10, 2023

Piezoelectric film, method of manufacturing same, piezoelectric film laminated body, and method of manufacturing same

Inventors: Akihiko Teshigahara (Kariya, JP); Kazuhiko Kano (Kariya, JP); Kenichi Sakai (Kariya, JP)
Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
H10N30/853H10N30/072
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Patent No.
US 11,785,857
App. No.
16/937,966
Granted
Oct 10, 2023
Kind
B2
Abstract

Provided is a piezoelectric film including an AlN crystal, and a first element and a second element doped to the AlN crystal. The first element is an element having an ionic radius larger than an ionic radius of Al. The second element is an element having an ionic radius smaller than the ionic radius of Al. Also provided are piezoelectric film laminated body including an underlayer and a piezoelectric film including ScAlN, and a method of manufacturing the same. The underlayer has a crystal lattice having six-fold symmetry or three-fold symmetry. Also provided are a piezoelectric film including ScAlN having a laminated structure of a hexagonal crystal and a cubic crystal, and a method of manufacturing the same. The cubic crystal is doped with an element other than trivalent element.

Claims (22)

1. A piezoelectric film laminated body comprising:

an underlayer; and

a piezoelectric film including ScAlN and formed on a surface of the underlayer,

wherein the underlayer has a six-fold symmetric crystal lattice when a crystal structure of the underlayer is observed from a direction in parallel with a c-axis of a crystal of the ScAlN, and includes an underlayer material having an a-axis length in the six-fold symmetric crystal lattice longer than an a-axis length of the ScAlN.

2. The piezoelectric film laminated body according to claim 1 ,

wherein the underlayer material has a c-axis oriented hexagonal crystal lattice.

3. The piezoelectric film laminated body according to claim 1 ,

wherein the underlayer material includes ZnO doped with a divalent element having an ionic radius in tetracoordination larger an ionic radius of Zn in tetracoordination, GaN doped with a trivalent element having an ionic radius in tetracoordination larger than an ionic radius of Ga in tetracoordination, InN doped with a trivalent element having an ionic radius in tetracoordination larger than an ionic radius of In in tetracoordination, InN, or Ti.

4. The piezoelectric film laminated body according to claim 1 ,

wherein the underlayer material includes ZnO doped with at least one element selected from the group consisting of Ca, Sr, and Ba, or GaN doped with at least one element selected from the group consisting of Sc, Y, and La.

5. The piezoelectric film laminated body according to claim 1 ,

wherein the underlayer material includes ZnO doped with an element other than a divalent element and having an ionic radius in tetracoordination larger than an ionic radius of Zn in tetracoordination, GaN doped with an element other than a trivalent element and having an ionic radius in tetracoordination larger than an ionic radius of Ga in tetracoordination, or InN doped with an element other than a trivalent element and having an ionic radius in tetracoordination larger than an ionic radius of In in tetracoordination.

6. A piezoelectric film laminated body comprising:

an underlayer; and

a piezoelectric film including ScAlN and formed on a surface of the underlayer,

wherein the underlayer has a three-fold symmetric crystal lattice when a crystal structure of the underlayer is observed from a direction in parallel with a c-axis of a crystal of the ScAlN, and includes an underlayer material having a nearest neighbor interatomic distance in a lattice plane in parallel with the surface of the underlayer longer than an a-axis length of the ScAlN.

7. The piezoelectric film laminated body according to claim 6 ,

wherein the underlayer material has a (111)-oriented cubic crystal lattice.

8. The piezoelectric film laminated body according to claim 6 ,

wherein the underlayer material includes a diamond structural material, a sphalerite structural material, Ta, or Cr.

9. The piezoelectric film laminated body according to claim 6 ,

wherein, in the ScAlN of the piezoelectric film, a ratio of the number of atoms of Sc to 100 at % of a total amount of the number of atoms of Sc and the number of atoms of Al exceeds 43 at %.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jul 24, 2020
From: TESHIGAHARA, AKIHIKO; KANO, KAZUHIKO; SAKAI, KENICHI
To: DENSO CORPORATION
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Priority Claims (1)
JP 2018-028711 · Feb 21, 2018 · national
Continuity (2)
Continuation PCTJP2019003790 · Feb 4, 2019
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