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Granted Patent B2
US 12,143,091 · App. 18/464,898 · Granted Nov 12, 2024

Methods of plasma dicing bulk acoustic wave components

Inventors: Atsushi Takano (Kadoma, JP); Takeshi Furusawa (Toyonaka, JP); Mitsuhiro Furukawa (Nishinomiya, JP)
Assignee: Skyworks Solutions, Inc.
H03H9/02133H03H3/02H03H9/02102H03H9/02125H03H9/0514H03H9/105H03H9/205H03H9/566H10N30/088H03F3/20H03F2200/451H04B1/3827
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Patent No.
US 12,143,091
App. No.
18/464,898
Granted
Nov 12, 2024
Kind
B2
Abstract

Aspects of this disclosure relate to methods of manufacturing bulk acoustic wave components. Such methods include plasma dicing to singulate individual bulk acoustic wave components. A buffer layer can be formed over a substrate of bulk acoustic wave components such that streets are exposed. The bulk acoustic wave components can be plasma diced along the exposed streets to thereby singulate the bulk acoustic wave components

Claims (30)

1. A method of manufacturing a bulk acoustic wave component, the method comprising:

providing a substrate with a bulk acoustic wave resonator thereon, the bulk acoustic wave resonator being enclosed within a cap;

forming a conductor over the substrate, the conductor extending laterally from a via extending through the substrate, the conductor being electrically connected with a conductive layer in the via, and the conductor being on an opposite side of the substrate than the bulk acoustic wave resonator;

forming a buffer layer over the substrate so as to form exposed streets between the bulk acoustic wave component and adjacent bulk acoustic wave components; and

plasma dicing through the substrate and a cap substrate of the cap along the exposed streets to thereby singulate the bulk acoustic wave component.

2. The method of claim 1 further comprising forming solder over the conductor such that the solder is non-overlapping with the via.

3. The method of claim 1 wherein the forming the buffer layer includes forming the buffer layer such that the buffer layer is over at least a portion of the conductor.

4. The method of claim 1 wherein the singulated bulk acoustic wave component includes a sidewall of the cap that is spaced apart from an edge of the substrate by 5 microns or less.

5. The method of claim 4 wherein the sidewall of the cap is 3 microns or less from the edge of the substrate.

6. The method of claim 1 wherein the substrate includes silicon, and the buffer layer has an etching rate that is at least 30 times slower than an etching rate of silicon during the plasma dicing.

7. The method of claim 1 wherein the buffer layer includes a phenol resin.

8. The method of claim 1 wherein the buffer layer includes a polyimide.

9. The method of claim 1 wherein the cap substrate is a silicon cap substrate, and the substrate is a silicon substrate.

10. The method of claim 1 wherein the conductive layer in the via is a conformal layer.

11. The method of claim 1 wherein the bulk acoustic wave component includes a filter arranged to filter a radio frequency signal, and the filter includes the bulk acoustic wave resonator and additional bulk acoustic wave resonators.

12. The method of claim 1 wherein the singulated bulk acoustic wave component includes a plurality of additional conductors extending laterally from a plurality of additional vias extending through the substrate, and each of the plurality of additional vias have solder thereon.

13. A method of manufacturing a bulk acoustic wave component, the method comprising:

forming a conductor over a substrate, the conductor extending laterally from a via extending through the substrate, the conductor being electrically connected with a conductive layer in the via, and the conductor being on an opposite side of the substrate than a bulk acoustic wave resonator;

forming solder on the conductor such that the solder is located laterally from the via;

forming a buffer layer over the substrate so as to form exposed streets between the bulk acoustic wave component and adjacent bulk acoustic wave components; and

plasma dicing along the exposed streets to thereby singulate the bulk acoustic wave component.

14. The method of claim 13 wherein the singulated bulk acoustic wave component includes a cap enclosing the bulk acoustic wave resonator, and the cap includes a sidewall that is spaced apart from an edge of the substrate by a distance that is in a range from 1 micron to 5 microns.

15. The method of claim 13 wherein the buffer layer has an etching rate that is at least 30 times slower than an etching rate of silicon during the plasma dicing, and the substrate includes silicon.

16. A method of manufacturing a bulk acoustic wave component, the method comprising:

forming a conductor over a substrate, the conductor extending laterally from a via that extends through the substrate, the conductor being electrically connected to a conductive layer in the via, the conductor being on an opposite side of the substrate than a bulk acoustic wave resonator, and the bulk acoustic wave resonator being enclosed within a cap; and

plasma dicing through the substrate and a cap substrate of the cap to thereby singulate the bulk acoustic wave component.

17. The method of claim 16 further comprising forming solder over the conductor such that the solder is non-overlapping with the via.

18. The method of claim 16 wherein the singulated bulk acoustic wave component includes a sidewall of the cap that is spaced apart from an edge of the substrate by a distance in a range from 1 micron to 5 microns.

19. The method of claim 16 wherein the cap substrate is a silicon cap substrate, and the substrate is a silicon substrate.

20. The method of claim 16 wherein the singulated bulk acoustic wave component includes a plurality of additional conductors extending laterally from a plurality of additional vias extending through the substrate, and each of the plurality of additional vias have solder thereon.

Continuity (4)
Continuation 18047806 · Oct 19, 2022
Continuation 16599020 · Oct 10, 2019
Provisional Application 62747486 · Oct 18, 2018
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