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- the present invention relates to a bonded body of a piezoelectric material substrate and supporting substrate and an acoustic wave device.
- the bonding surface is made a roughened surface
- the ratio of an average length RSm of a factor in a cross sectional profile of convex-concave structure forming the roughened surface and a wavelength ⁇ of a surface acoustic wave is made 0.2 or larger and 7.0 or smaller, and the arithmetic average roughness Ra of the cross sectional profile of the convex-concave structure is made 100 nm or larger. Further, it is defined a difference in height of a roughened surface in the patent document 2.
- An object of the present invention is to provide a novel structure for suppressing the spurious wave which cannot be suppressed by adjusting the surface morphology of a bonding surface of a piezoelectric material substrate or supporting substrate of a bonded body.
- the present invention provides a bonded body comprising:
- a piezoelectric material substrate comprising a material selected from the group consisting of lithium niobate, lithium tantalate and lithium niobate-lithium tantalate;
- ⁇ is assigned to a difference of phases of p-polarized light and s-polarized light of a reflected light, a difference of the maximum and minimum values of said difference ⁇ of said phases in a wavelength range of 400 nm to 760 nm is 70° or smaller.
- the inventors have tried to make the bonding surface of the supporting substrate or piezoelectric material substrate a mirror surface and then to form a roughened surface by the mechanical processing, and the microstructure was observed and analyzed in detail. As a result, it is found that minute defects or denaturing of the film, which cannot be evaluated based on the surface convex-concave morphology, are generated on the bonding surface after the mechanical processing. Based on such measurement results, it is found that the effect of suppressing the spurious wave is needed to be controlled based not on the surface convex-concave morphology and based on the effective crystallographic and geometric characteristics in surface regions of the piezoelectric material substrate and bonding layer.
- the present inventors have researched various kinds of processing and measuring methods of the bonding surface. During the research, the inventors noticed spectral ellipsometry.
- the spectral ellipsometry is an analyzing method of measuring change of the polarized state of an incident light onto and that of the reflected light from a surface of a sample (piezoelectric material substrate or supporting substrate of the present invention).
- the incident plane is defined as a plane which is perpendicular to the surface of the substrate and includes the incident light and reflected light.
- the p-polarized light is defined as a polarized component whose electric field vibrates in parallel with the incident plane
- the s-polarized light is defined as a component whose electric field vibrates perpendicular to the incident plane.
- the incident light is defined as a linearly polarized light in which the amplitudes and phases of the p-polarized light and s-polarized light are matched with each other.
- the incident light is irradiated onto the substrate, the light reflected at the substrate surface and the light reflected at interfaces of layers or defects near the substrate surface interfere with each other.
- the phase is shifted at the same time.
- the polarized state of the reflected light becomes elliptical polarized light, which is different from that of the incident light.
- the measurement results by the spectral ellipsometry carries information of convex-concave morphology on the thin film on the substrate surface as well as information in the depth direction of the thin film (film thickness and density).
- the inventors tried to apply the spectral ellipsometry to the bonding surface after the roughening process of the piezoelectric material substrate or supporting substrate, for obtaining information of denaturing or change of density of a region near the bonding surface, and to research the relationship between the information and the effect of suppressing the spurious wave.
- the bonding surface of the piezoelectric material substrate or supporting substrate is subjected to roughening process.
- the present inventors performed the measurement by the spectral ellipsometry of the bonding surfaces of the piezoelectric material substrate and supporting substrate after various kinds of roughening processes, respectively, so that the various kinds of polarized states of the reflected light are measured.
- FIG. 1 is a conceptual diagram for illustrating principle of spectral ellipsometry.
- FIG. 2( a ) shows the state that a bonding surface 1 a of a supporting substrate 1 is processed
- FIG. 2( b ) shows the state that a bonding layer 2 is provided on the bonding surface 1 a of the supporting substrate 1
- FIG. 2( c ) shows the state that plasma B is irradiated onto a bonding surface of the bonding layer 2 to activate the surface.
- FIG. 3( a ) shows a piezoelectric material substrate 3
- FIG. 3( b ) shows the state that a bonding surface 3 b of the piezoelectric material substrate 3 is activated.
- FIG. 4( a ) shows a bonded body 5 of the supporting substrate 1 and piezoelectric material substrate 3
- FIG. 4( b ) shows the state that a piezoelectric material substrate 3 A of a bonded body 5 A is thinned by the processing
- FIG. 4( c ) shows an acoustic wave device 6 .
- FIG. 5( a ) shows the piezoelectric material substrate 3
- FIG. 5( b ) shows the state that a bonding surface 12 a of an intermediate layer 12 on the piezoelectric material substrate 3 is activated.
- FIG. 6( a ) shows a bonded body 15 of the supporting substrate 1 and piezoelectric material substrate 3
- FIG. 6( b ) shows the state that the piezoelectric material substrate 3 A of a bonded body 15 A is thinned by the processing
- FIG. 6( c ) shows an acoustic wave device 16 .
- FIG. 7 is a chart showing the results of surface acoustic wave devices of the inventive and comparative examples by spectral ellipsometry.
- FIG. 8 is a chart showing reflection characteristics of the surface acoustic wave device of the inventive example.
- FIG. 9 is a chart showing reflection characteristics of the surface acoustic wave device of the comparative example.
- FIG. 2( a ) it is prepared a supporting substrate 1 having a pair of main surfaces 1 a and 1 b . Processing A is then performed on the main surface (bonding surface) la to roughen the surface. Then, as shown in FIG. 2( b ) , a bonding layer 2 is film-formed on the main surface 1 a of the supporting substrate 1 . The surface 2 a of the bonding layer 2 is subjected to CMP polishing for obtaining a mirror surface. Then, as shown in FIG. 2( c ) , plasma is irradiated onto the surface 2 a of the bonding layer 2 to obtain a surface-activated bonding surface 2 b.
- FIG. 3( a ) it is prepared a piezoelectric material substrate 3 having a main surface 3 a .
- Plasma is then irradiated onto the main surface of the piezoelectric material substrate 3 as arrows C to activate the surface to form a surface-activated bonding surface 3 b.
- the activated bonding surface 2 b of the bonding layer 2 on the supporting substrate and the activated bonding surface 3 b of the piezoelectric material substrate 3 are contacted with each other and subjected to direct bonding, to obtain a bonded body 5 shown in FIG. 4( a ) .
- electrodes may be provided on the piezoelectric material substrate 3 .
- the main surface 3 c of the piezoelectric material substrate 3 is processed to thin the substrate 3 to form a thinned piezoelectric material substrate 3 A so that a bonded body 5 A is provided.
- 9 represents a processed surface.
- predetermined electrodes 10 may be formed on the processed surface 9 of the piezoelectric material substrate 3 A of the bonded body 5 A to obtain an acoustic wave device 6 .
- FIGS. 5 and 6 relate to this embodiment.
- FIG. 2( a ) it is prepared a supporting substrate 1 having a pair of main surfaces 1 a and 1 b . Processing A is then performed on the main surface (bonding surface) 1 a for the roughening. Then, as shown in FIG. 2( b ) , a bonding layer 2 is film-formed on the main surface 1 a of the supporting substrate 1 . The surface of the bonding layer 2 is subjected to CMP polishing for obtaining a mirror surface. Then, as shown in FIG. 2( c ) , plasma is irradiated onto the bonding surface of the bonding layer 2 as arrows B to obtain a surface-activated bonding surface 2 b.
- FIG. 5( a ) it is prepared a piezoelectric material substrate 3 having a main surface 3 a . Then, as shown in FIG. 5( b ) , an intermediate layer 12 is formed on the main surface (bonding surface) 3 a of the piezoelectric material substrate 3 , and plasma is irradiated onto the surface of the intermediate layer 12 as arrows C to perform the surface activation to form a surface-activated bonding surface 12 a.
- the activated surface 2 b of the bonding layer 2 on the supporting substrate and the activated bonding surface 12 a of the intermediate layer 12 on the piezoelectric material substrate 3 are contacted with and directly bonded with each other, to obtain a bonded body 15 shown in FIG. 6( a ) .
- electrodes may be provided on the piezoelectric material substrate 3 .
- the main surface 3 c of the piezoelectric material substrate 3 is processed to thin the substrate 3 to form a thinned piezoelectric material substrate 3 A so that a bonded body 15 A is provided.
- 9 represents a processed surface.
- predetermined electrodes 10 may be formed on the processed surface 9 of the piezoelectric material substrate 3 A of the bonded body 15 A to obtain an acoustic wave device 16 .
- the intermediate layer 12 may be subsequently film-formed on the bonding layer 2 .
- CMP processing is performed on the surface of the intermediate layer 12 to obtain a bonding surface (mirror surface). Plasma is irradiated onto the thus obtained bonding surface to activate the surface. The surface of the supporting substrate is then subjected to plasma activation and directly bonded with the bonding surface of the intermediate layer.
- the difference of the maximum and minimum values of the wavelength difference is made 70° or smaller.
- the spectral ellipsometry is an analyzing method of measuring change of the polarized state of an incident light onto and that of the reflected light from a surface of a sample.
- the incident plane is defined as a plane which is perpendicular to the surface of the supporting substrate or piezoelectric material substrate and includes the incident light and reflected light.
- the p-polarized light is defined as a polarized component whose electric field vibrates in parallel with the incident plane
- the s-polarized light is defined as a component whose electric field vibrates perpendicular to the incident plane.
- the incident light is defined as a linearly polarized light in which the amplitudes and phases of the p-polarized light and s-polarized light (circular polarized light) are matched with each other.
- the incident light is irradiated onto the substrate surface, the light reflected at the substrate surface and the light reflected at interfaces of layers or defects inside the substrate interfere with each other.
- the phase is shifted at the same time.
- the polarized state of the reflected light becomes elliptical polarized light, which is different from that of the incident light.
- r p represents the Fresnel Amplitude Reflection Coefficient Ratio (ratio of electric field vectors of the incident light and reflected light) with respect to the p-polarized light
- r s represents the Fresnel Amplitude Reflection Coefficient Ratio with respect to the s-polarized light.
- E i p represents the p-polarized component of the incident light
- E i s represents the s-polarized component of the incident light
- E r p represents the p-polarized component of the emitted light
- E r s represents the s-polarized component of the emitted light
- N 0 and N 1 represent refractive indices of atmosphere and substrate.
- the amplitude reflection coefficient is a complex number and indicates the changes of the amplitude and phase.
- the Fresnel Amplitude Reflection Coefficient ⁇ is defined by the following formula (4).
- tan ⁇ represents a ratio of the amplitudes of the p-polarized light and s-polarized light of the reflected light (refer to the formula (5)), and ⁇ represents the difference of the phases of the p-polarized light and s-polarized light of the reflected light (refer to formula (6)).
- the present inventors particularly noted the difference ⁇ of the phases of the p-polarized light and s-polarized light of the reflected light (refer to the formula (6)) in the visual light range (range between a wavelength of 400 nm and 760 nm), measured ⁇ after subjecting the bonding surfaces of the piezoelectric material substrate and supporting substrate to various kinds of processes, and observed the relationship of this and the spurious wave.
- the spurious wave can be considerably suppressed, in the case that the relative change (difference of the maximum and minimum values) of the phase difference ⁇ of the p-polarized light and s-polarized light of the reflected light.
- the effect of suppressing the spurious wave is observed in the case that the difference of the maximum and minimum values of the phase difference ⁇ is 70° or smaller.
- the phase difference ⁇ generally tends to be larger in a short wavelength range and tends to be smaller in a long wavelength range. This means that the light of a shorter wavelength has larger light-rotation effect.
- the difference of the phase differences A on the sides of short wavelength and on the side of long wavelength is relatively small, so that the chart is smooth.
- the substrate surface is a mirror surface
- the difference between the phase difference ⁇ on the side of short wavelength and the phase difference ⁇ on the side of long wavelength is large, so that the chart is steep. It is considered that the results reflect the change of microstructure of a surface denaturing layer near the processed surface.
- the difference of the maximum and minimum values of the phase difference ⁇ of the p-polarized light and s-polarized light of the reflected light is made 70° or smaller, may preferably be 65° or smaller and most preferably be 60° or smaller. Further, in the wavelength range between 400 nm and 760 nm, the difference of the maximum and minimum values of the phase difference ⁇ of the p-polarized light and s-polarized light may preferably be 20° or larger and more preferably be 25° or larger.
- a mechanical processing method such as grinding process by grinding stones or blast processing by micro media such as alumina or silicon nitride, and ion beam processing of colliding ions at a high speed.
- the material of the supporting substrate 1 is not particularly limited, the material is preferably selected from the group consisting of silicon, quartz, sialon, mullite, sapphire and translucent alumina. It is thus possible to further improve the temperature characteristics on frequency of the acoustic wave device 6 or 16 .
- the film-forming method of the bonding layer or intermediate layer is not particularly limited, sputtering method, chemical vapor deposition (CVD) method and vapor deposition method may be listed.
- the material of the bonding layer 2 is not particularly limited as far as the surface activation process is possible, a metal oxide film is preferred, and the material may preferably be selected from the group consisting of silicon oxide, silicon nitride, aluminum nitride, alumina, tantalum pentoxide, mullite, niobium pentoxide and titanium oxide.
- the surface activation method an appropriate method may be selected depending on the material used for the bonding layer. Such surface activation method includes plasma activation and FAB (Ar atomic beam).
- the material of the intermediate layer 12 is not particularly limited as far as the surface activation processing is possible, a metal oxide film is preferred, and it is particularly preferred a material selected from the group consisting of silicon oxide, silicon nitride, aluminum nitride, alumina, tantalum pentoxide, mullite, niobium pentoxide and titanium oxide. Further, it is preferred to select the material of the intermediate layer different from that of the bonding layer.
- the thickness of the bonding layer 2 may preferably be 0.05 ⁇ m or larger, more preferably be 0.1 ⁇ m or larger and most preferably be 0.2 ⁇ m or larger on the viewpoint of the present invention. Further, the thickness of the bonding layer 2 may preferably be 3 ⁇ m or smaller, more preferably be 2 ⁇ m or smaller and further preferably be 1 ⁇ m or smaller.
- the piezoelectric material substrate 3 used in the present invention is composed of lithium tantalate (LT) single crystal, lithium niobate (LN) single crystal, or lithium niobate-lithium tantalate solid solution.
- LT lithium tantalate
- LN lithium niobate
- LN-lithium tantalate solid solution lithium tantalate
- the materials have high propagation speed of an acoustic wave and large electromechanical coupling factor, they are suitable for a surface acoustic wave device of a high frequency and wide-band frequency application.
- the normal line direction of the main surface 3 a of the piezoelectric material substrate 3 is not particularly limited, for example, in the case that the piezoelectric material substrate 3 is made of LT, it is preferred to use the substrate rotated from Y-axis toward Z-axis by 32 to 55° ((180°, 58 to 35°, 180°) on Euler angle representation) around X-axis, which is a direction of propagation of a surface acoustic wave, because of a low propagation loss.
- the piezoelectric material substrate 3 is made of LN
- the size of the piezoelectric material substrate 3 is not particularly limited, for example, the diameter may be 100 to 200 mm and thickness may be 0.15 to 1 ⁇ m.
- Plasma is then irradiated onto the bonding surfaces of the bonding layer 2 on the supporting substrate 1 , of the piezoelectric material substrate 3 and of the intermediate layer 12 on the piezoelectric material substrate 3 at a temperature of 150° C. or lower, to activate the bonding surfaces.
- a temperature of 150° C. or lower a temperature of 150° C. or lower.
- the pressure during the surface activation may preferably be 100 Pa or lower and more preferably be 80 Pa or lower. Further, the atmosphere may be composed of nitrogen only, oxygen only or mixture of nitrogen and oxygen.
- the temperature during plasma irradiation is made 150° C. or lower. It is thus possible to obtain a bonded body having a high bonding strength and without deterioration of crystallinity.
- the temperature during the plasma irradiation is made 150° C. or lower, and may preferably be made 100° C. or lower.
- the energy of the plasma irradiation may preferably be 30 to 150 W.
- the product of the energy and irradiation time duration of the irradiated plasma may preferably be 0.12 to 1.0 Wh.
- the plasma-treated bonding surfaces of the piezoelectric material substrate and bonding layer are contacted with each other at room temperature.
- the treatment may be performed in vacuum and the contact may preferably be performed in atmosphere.
- the ion beam is neutralized at the grid, and the beam of argon atoms is emitted from the high-speed atomic beam source.
- the voltage may preferably be made 0.5 to 2.0 kV, and the current may preferably be made 50 to 200 mA.
- the bonding surfaces of the bonding layer on the supporting substrate, of the piezoelectric material substrate and of the intermediate layer on the piezoelectric material substrate are subjected to flattening process.
- the method of flattening the respective surfaces includes lapping, chemical mechanical polishing (CMP) and the like.
- CMP chemical mechanical polishing
- the flattened surfaces may preferably have Ra of 1 nm or lower and more preferably be 0.3 nm or lower.
- the temperature for the annealing treatment may preferably be 100° C. or higher and 300° C. or lower.
- the bonded bodies 5 , 5 A, 15 and 15 A of the present invention can be appropriately used for the acoustic wave devices 6 and 16 . That is, it is provided an acoustic wave device having the bonded body of the present invention and an electrode provided on the piezoelectric material substrate.
- the acoustic wave devices 6 and 16 a surface acoustic wave device, Lamb wave-type device, thin film resonator (FBAR) and the like are known.
- the surface acoustic wave device is produced by providing input side IDT (Interdigital transducer) electrodes (also referred to as comb electrodes or interdigitated electrodes) for oscillating surface acoustic wave and IDT electrodes on the output side for receiving the surface acoustic wave on the surface of the piezoelectric single crystal substrate.
- IDT Interdigital transducer
- IDT electrodes also referred to as comb electrodes or interdigitated electrodes
- the material forming the electrodes 10 on the piezoelectric material substrate 3 A may preferably be aluminum, aluminum alloy, copper or gold and more preferably be aluminum or aluminum alloy.
- the aluminum alloy used may preferably be Al doped with 0.3 to 5 weight percent of Cu. In this case, Ti, Mg, Ni, Mo, or Ta may be used instead of Cu.
- one main surface 3 c of a 42Y-cut X-propagation LiTaO 3 substrate (piezoelectric material substrate) 3 having a thickness of 250 ⁇ m was polished into mirror surface and the other main surface 3 a was subjected to lapping with GC #1000. Further, it was prepared a Si(100) substrate (supporting substrate) 1 having a thickness of 0.23 mm and high resistance (>2 k ⁇ cm). The sizes of the respective substrates were 150 mm.
- the bonding surface of the supporting substrate was then subjected to processing into a roughened surface. According to the present example, it was performed grinding process using grinding stones of number of #6000. The amount of the processing was made about 3 ⁇ m.
- the bonding surface of the supporting substrate was measured by the spectral ellipsometry, provided that ⁇ is assigned to the difference of the phases of p-polarized light and s-polarized light of the reflected light, the difference of the maximum and minimum values of the phase difference ⁇ in a wavelength range of 400 nm to 760 nm was proved to be 31.3°.
- a silicon oxide film 2 was the film-formed in 0.7 ⁇ m on the bonding surface 1 a of the supporting substrate 1 , and the surface was polished by CMP (chemical mechanical polishing) in about 0.2 um for the flattening. Then, the bonding surface 3 b of the piezoelectric material substrate 3 and bonding surface of the silicon oxide film 2 were activated by N 2 plasma, respectively, and then bonded with each other in atmosphere. Specifically, as the surface roughness of the bonding layer after the polishing was measured by AFM (Atomic force Microscope), it was confirmed that a mirror surface having Ra of 0.4 nm could be obtained sufficient for the bonding.
- AFM Anatomic force Microscope
- the bonding surface 3 b of the piezoelectric material substrate 3 and bonding surface 2 b of the bonding layer 2 were subjected to cleaning and surface activation, respectively. Specifically, ultrasonic cleaning by pure water was performed and the substrate surface was dried by spin drying. Then, the supporting substrate after the cleaning was introduced into a plasma activation chamber and the bonding surface of the bonding layer was activated at 30° C. by nitrogen gas plasma. The piezoelectric material substrate 3 was similarly introduced in the plasma activation chamber and subjected to surface activation by nitrogen plasma at 30° C. The time period of the surface activation was made 40 seconds, and the energy was made 100 W. The ultrasonic cleaning and spin drying were performed again as described above, for removing particles adhered during the surface activation.
- the positions of the respective substrates were then adjusted so that the activated bonding surfaces of the respective substrates were contacted with each other at room temperature.
- the piezoelectric material substrate 3 was positioned on the upper side when the substrates were contacted. As a result, it was observed the state (so-called bonding wave) that the adhesion of the substrates was spreading to prove that good preliminary bonding was accomplished.
- the bonded body was then charged into an oven filled with nitrogen atmosphere and held at 130° C. for 40 hours, for improving the bonding strength.
- the surface 3 c of the piezoelectric material substrate 3 of the bonded body after the heating was subjected to grinding, lapping and CMP processing so that the thickness of the piezoelectric material substrate 3 A reached 7 ⁇ m.
- a comb-shaped electrode made of aluminum metal was formed on the piezoelectric material substrate of the bonded body, to produce a resonator of a surface acoustic wave device.
- the specification was shown as follows.
- IDT opening length 300 um
- spurious was hardly observed in a range higher than an anti-resonance frequency, as shown in FIG. 8 .
- the value of the spurious wave was proved to be 2.7 dB.
- the resonator of the surface acoustic wave device according to the same procedure as that in the inventive example 1, and the reflection characteristics of the resonator was measured by the network analyzer.
- the processing of the bonding surface of the supporting substrate was performed by grinding the bonding surface by grinding stones of #8000.
- the bonding surface of the supporting substrate was measured by the spectral ellipsometry, provided that ⁇ is assigned to the difference of the phases of p-polarized light and s-polarized light of the reflected light, the difference of the maximum and minimum values of the phase difference ⁇ in a wavelength range of 400 nm to 760 nm was proved to be 37.4°. The amplitude of the spurious wave was proved to be 3.2 dB.
- the resonator of the surface acoustic wave device according to the same procedure as the inventive example 1, and the reflection characteristics of the resonator was measured by the network analyzer.
- the processing of the bonding layer of the supporting substrate was performed by blasting of the whole surface of the substrate by silicon nitride particles. The amount of the processing was evaluated and proved to be as small as 10 nm.
- the bonding surface of the supporting substrate was measured by the spectral ellipsometry, provided that ⁇ is assigned to the difference of the phases of p-polarized light and s-polarized light of the reflected light, the difference of the maximum and minimum values of the phase difference ⁇ in a wavelength range of 400 nm to 760 nm was proved to be 58.5° in the wavelength range of 400 nm to 760 nm.
- the amplitude of the spurious wave was proved to be 4.8 dB.
- the resonator of the surface acoustic wave device was produced according to the same procedure as that of the inventive example 1, and the reflection characteristics of the resonator was measured by the network analyzer.
- the processing of the bonding surface of the supporting substrate was performed by charging the supporting substrate in an ion processing machine and by colliding Ar ions accelerated at 0.5 keV.
- the bonding surface of the supporting substrate was measured by the spectral ellipsometry, provided that ⁇ is assigned to the difference of the phases of p-polarized light and s-polarized light of the reflected light, the difference of the maximum and minimum values of the phase difference ⁇ in a wavelength range of 400 nm to 760 nm was proved to be 42.8°.
- the amplitude of the spurious wave was proved to be 3.3 dB.
- the resonator of the surface acoustic wave device was produced according to the same procedure as that of the inventive example 1, and the reflection characteristics of the resonator was measured by the network analyzer. However, the processing of the bonding surface was performed by charging the supporting substrate in an ion processing machine and by colliding Ar ions accelerated at 1.0 keV.
- the bonding surface of the supporting substrate was measured by the spectral ellipsometry, provided that ⁇ is assigned to the difference of the phases of p-polarized light and s-polarized light of the reflected light, the difference of the maximum and minimum values of the phase difference ⁇ in a wavelength range of 400 nm to 760 nm was proved to be 50.9°.
- the amplitude of the spurious wave was proved to be 3.5 dB.
- the resonator of the surface acoustic wave device was produced according to the same procedure as that of the inventive example 1, and the reflection characteristics of the resonator was measured by the network analyzer.
- the bonding surface of the supporting substrate was made a mirror surface, Ra was 0.02 nm.
- the bonding surface of the supporting substrate was measured by the spectral ellipsometry, provided that ⁇ is assigned to the difference of the phases of p-polarized light and s-polarized light of the reflected light, the difference of the maximum and minimum values of the phase difference ⁇ in a wavelength range of 400 nm to 760 nm was proved to be 85.0°.
- Spurious was observed in the reflection characteristics, as shown in FIG. 9 .
- the amplitude of the spurious wave was 12 dB.
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Description
- This is a continuation of PCT/JP2020/042102, filed Nov. 11, 2020, which claims priority to Japanese Application No. 2019-216528 filed on Nov. 29, 2019, the entire contents of which are hereby incorporated by reference.
- The present invention relates to a bonded body of a piezoelectric material substrate and supporting substrate and an acoustic wave device.
- It is known that, according to a surface acoustic wave filter obtained by adhering lithium tantalate and sapphire through a silicon oxide layer, bulk wave is generated at the bonding interface so that unnecessary response is generated in transmission band and high frequency band. For preventing this, it is proposed that roughened surface in introduced at the bonding interface to scatter the bulk wave and to suppress the unnecessary response (
Patent documents 1 and 2). - According to
patent document 1, in the case that the bonding surface is made a roughened surface, as to the geometrical specification of the roughened surface, the ratio of an average length RSm of a factor in a cross sectional profile of convex-concave structure forming the roughened surface and a wavelength λ of a surface acoustic wave is made 0.2 or larger and 7.0 or smaller, and the arithmetic average roughness Ra of the cross sectional profile of the convex-concave structure is made 100 nm or larger. Further, it is defined a difference in height of a roughened surface in thepatent document 2. - (Patent document 1) Japanese Patent No. 6250856B
- (Patent document 2) U.S. Patent Publication No. 2017-063333A1
- In prior arts, it was measured the convex-concave morphology (for example, RSm or Ra) of a bonding surface of a supporting substrate or piezoelectric material substrate and the values were adjusted to be slightly large for suppressing the spurious wave. However, even in the case that RSm's of the bonding surfaces are the same, there may be cases that the spurious wave could not be suppressed. It is thus proved that the spurious wave cannot be suppressed, by simply adjusting the convex-concave morphology of the bonding surface.
- An object of the present invention is to provide a novel structure for suppressing the spurious wave which cannot be suppressed by adjusting the surface morphology of a bonding surface of a piezoelectric material substrate or supporting substrate of a bonded body.
- The present invention provides a bonded body comprising:
- a supporting substrate;
- a piezoelectric material substrate comprising a material selected from the group consisting of lithium niobate, lithium tantalate and lithium niobate-lithium tantalate; and
- a bonding layer bonding said supporting substrate and said piezoelectric material substrate,
- provided that at least one of a bonding surface of said supporting substrate and a bonding surface of said piezoelectric material substrate is measured by spectral ellipsometry and that Δ is assigned to a difference of phases of p-polarized light and s-polarized light of a reflected light, a difference of the maximum and minimum values of said difference Δ of said phases in a wavelength range of 400 nm to 760 nm is 70° or smaller.
- The inventors have tried to make the bonding surface of the supporting substrate or piezoelectric material substrate a mirror surface and then to form a roughened surface by the mechanical processing, and the microstructure was observed and analyzed in detail. As a result, it is found that minute defects or denaturing of the film, which cannot be evaluated based on the surface convex-concave morphology, are generated on the bonding surface after the mechanical processing. Based on such measurement results, it is found that the effect of suppressing the spurious wave is needed to be controlled based not on the surface convex-concave morphology and based on the effective crystallographic and geometric characteristics in surface regions of the piezoelectric material substrate and bonding layer.
- Based on such findings, the present inventors have researched various kinds of processing and measuring methods of the bonding surface. During the research, the inventors noticed spectral ellipsometry.
- That is, the spectral ellipsometry is an analyzing method of measuring change of the polarized state of an incident light onto and that of the reflected light from a surface of a sample (piezoelectric material substrate or supporting substrate of the present invention). Specifically, for example as shown in
FIG. 1 , the incident plane is defined as a plane which is perpendicular to the surface of the substrate and includes the incident light and reflected light. The p-polarized light is defined as a polarized component whose electric field vibrates in parallel with the incident plane, and the s-polarized light is defined as a component whose electric field vibrates perpendicular to the incident plane. Here, the incident light is defined as a linearly polarized light in which the amplitudes and phases of the p-polarized light and s-polarized light are matched with each other. As the incident light is irradiated onto the substrate, the light reflected at the substrate surface and the light reflected at interfaces of layers or defects near the substrate surface interfere with each other. Further, as the velocity of the light propagating in the substrate is lower in response to the refractive index of the corresponding part, the phase is shifted at the same time. As these are different in the component (p-polarized light) in parallel with the incident plane and in the component (s-polarized light) perpendicular to the incident plane, as shown inFIG. 1 , the polarized state of the reflected light becomes elliptical polarized light, which is different from that of the incident light. - Thus, it means that the measurement results by the spectral ellipsometry carries information of convex-concave morphology on the thin film on the substrate surface as well as information in the depth direction of the thin film (film thickness and density).
- The inventors tried to apply the spectral ellipsometry to the bonding surface after the roughening process of the piezoelectric material substrate or supporting substrate, for obtaining information of denaturing or change of density of a region near the bonding surface, and to research the relationship between the information and the effect of suppressing the spurious wave.
- That is, the bonding surface of the piezoelectric material substrate or supporting substrate is subjected to roughening process. Thereafter, the present inventors performed the measurement by the spectral ellipsometry of the bonding surfaces of the piezoelectric material substrate and supporting substrate after various kinds of roughening processes, respectively, so that the various kinds of polarized states of the reflected light are measured. As a result, particularly in visual light range (range between a wavelength of 400 nm and 760 nm), provided that Δ is assigned to the difference of the phases of the p-polarized light and s-polarized light of the reflected light, it is found that the effect of suppressing the spurious wave can be considerably improved by making the difference of the maximum and minimum values of the difference Δ of the phases 70° or lower. The present invention is thus made.
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FIG. 1 is a conceptual diagram for illustrating principle of spectral ellipsometry. -
FIG. 2(a) shows the state that abonding surface 1 a of a supportingsubstrate 1 is processed,FIG. 2(b) shows the state that abonding layer 2 is provided on thebonding surface 1 a of the supportingsubstrate 1, andFIG. 2(c) shows the state that plasma B is irradiated onto a bonding surface of thebonding layer 2 to activate the surface. -
FIG. 3(a) shows apiezoelectric material substrate 3, andFIG. 3(b) shows the state that abonding surface 3 b of thepiezoelectric material substrate 3 is activated. -
FIG. 4(a) shows abonded body 5 of the supportingsubstrate 1 andpiezoelectric material substrate 3,FIG. 4(b) shows the state that apiezoelectric material substrate 3A of a bondedbody 5A is thinned by the processing, andFIG. 4(c) shows anacoustic wave device 6. -
FIG. 5(a) shows thepiezoelectric material substrate 3, andFIG. 5(b) shows the state that abonding surface 12 a of anintermediate layer 12 on thepiezoelectric material substrate 3 is activated. -
FIG. 6(a) shows abonded body 15 of the supportingsubstrate 1 andpiezoelectric material substrate 3,FIG. 6(b) shows the state that thepiezoelectric material substrate 3A of a bondedbody 15A is thinned by the processing, andFIG. 6(c) shows anacoustic wave device 16. -
FIG. 7 is a chart showing the results of surface acoustic wave devices of the inventive and comparative examples by spectral ellipsometry. -
FIG. 8 is a chart showing reflection characteristics of the surface acoustic wave device of the inventive example. -
FIG. 9 is a chart showing reflection characteristics of the surface acoustic wave device of the comparative example. - Embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail below, appropriately referring to the drawings.
- First, it will be described a bonded body and an acoustic wave device including the same.
- First, as shown in
FIG. 2(a) , it is prepared a supportingsubstrate 1 having a pair ofmain surfaces FIG. 2(b) , abonding layer 2 is film-formed on themain surface 1 a of the supportingsubstrate 1. Thesurface 2 a of thebonding layer 2 is subjected to CMP polishing for obtaining a mirror surface. Then, as shown inFIG. 2(c) , plasma is irradiated onto thesurface 2 a of thebonding layer 2 to obtain a surface-activatedbonding surface 2 b. - Further, as shown in
FIG. 3(a) , it is prepared apiezoelectric material substrate 3 having amain surface 3 a. Plasma is then irradiated onto the main surface of thepiezoelectric material substrate 3 as arrows C to activate the surface to form a surface-activatedbonding surface 3 b. - The activated
bonding surface 2 b of thebonding layer 2 on the supporting substrate and the activatedbonding surface 3 b of thepiezoelectric material substrate 3 are contacted with each other and subjected to direct bonding, to obtain a bondedbody 5 shown inFIG. 4(a) . - At this stage, electrodes may be provided on the
piezoelectric material substrate 3. However, preferably, as shown inFIG. 4(b) , themain surface 3 c of thepiezoelectric material substrate 3 is processed to thin thesubstrate 3 to form a thinnedpiezoelectric material substrate 3A so that a bondedbody 5A is provided. 9 represents a processed surface. Then, as shown in FIG. 4(c),predetermined electrodes 10 may be formed on the processedsurface 9 of thepiezoelectric material substrate 3A of the bondedbody 5A to obtain anacoustic wave device 6. - Further, an intermediate layer may be provided between the
bonding layer 2 andpiezoelectric material substrate 3.FIGS. 5 and 6 relate to this embodiment. - According to the present example, as shown in
FIG. 2(a) , it is prepared a supportingsubstrate 1 having a pair ofmain surfaces FIG. 2(b) , abonding layer 2 is film-formed on themain surface 1 a of the supportingsubstrate 1. The surface of thebonding layer 2 is subjected to CMP polishing for obtaining a mirror surface. Then, as shown inFIG. 2(c) , plasma is irradiated onto the bonding surface of thebonding layer 2 as arrows B to obtain a surface-activatedbonding surface 2 b. - Further, as shown in
FIG. 5(a) , it is prepared apiezoelectric material substrate 3 having amain surface 3 a. Then, as shown inFIG. 5(b) , anintermediate layer 12 is formed on the main surface (bonding surface) 3 a of thepiezoelectric material substrate 3, and plasma is irradiated onto the surface of theintermediate layer 12 as arrows C to perform the surface activation to form a surface-activatedbonding surface 12 a. - Then, the activated
surface 2 b of thebonding layer 2 on the supporting substrate and the activatedbonding surface 12 a of theintermediate layer 12 on thepiezoelectric material substrate 3 are contacted with and directly bonded with each other, to obtain a bondedbody 15 shown inFIG. 6(a) . - At this stage, electrodes may be provided on the
piezoelectric material substrate 3. However, preferably, as shown inFIG. 6(b) , themain surface 3 c of thepiezoelectric material substrate 3 is processed to thin thesubstrate 3 to form a thinnedpiezoelectric material substrate 3A so that a bondedbody 15A is provided. 9 represents a processed surface. Then, as shown inFIG. 6(c) ,predetermined electrodes 10 may be formed on the processedsurface 9 of thepiezoelectric material substrate 3A of the bondedbody 15A to obtain anacoustic wave device 16. - Alternatively, after the
bonding layer 2 is film-formed, theintermediate layer 12 may be subsequently film-formed on thebonding layer 2. In this case, CMP processing is performed on the surface of theintermediate layer 12 to obtain a bonding surface (mirror surface). Plasma is irradiated onto the thus obtained bonding surface to activate the surface. The surface of the supporting substrate is then subjected to plasma activation and directly bonded with the bonding surface of the intermediate layer. - According to the present invention, in visual light range (range between a wavelength from 400 nm and 760 nm), provided that Δ is assigned to the difference of the phases of the p-polarized light and s-polarized light of the reflected light, the difference of the maximum and minimum values of the wavelength difference is made 70° or smaller. The points will be further described below.
- That is, the spectral ellipsometry is an analyzing method of measuring change of the polarized state of an incident light onto and that of the reflected light from a surface of a sample. As shown in
FIG. 1 , the incident plane is defined as a plane which is perpendicular to the surface of the supporting substrate or piezoelectric material substrate and includes the incident light and reflected light. The p-polarized light is defined as a polarized component whose electric field vibrates in parallel with the incident plane, and the s-polarized light is defined as a component whose electric field vibrates perpendicular to the incident plane. Here, the incident light is defined as a linearly polarized light in which the amplitudes and phases of the p-polarized light and s-polarized light (circular polarized light) are matched with each other. As the incident light is irradiated onto the substrate surface, the light reflected at the substrate surface and the light reflected at interfaces of layers or defects inside the substrate interfere with each other. Further, as the velocity of the light propagating of the substrate is lower in response to the refractive index in the corresponding part, the phase is shifted at the same time. As these are different in the component (p-polarized light) in parallel with the incident plane and the component (s-polarized light) perpendicular to the incident plane, as shown inFIG. 1 , the polarized state of the reflected light becomes elliptical polarized light, which is different from that of the incident light. - Here, the change of the polarized state is represented as Fresnel Amplitude Reflection Coefficient Ratio ρ.
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ρ=r p /r s (1) - Here, rp represents the Fresnel Amplitude Reflection Coefficient Ratio (ratio of electric field vectors of the incident light and reflected light) with respect to the p-polarized light, and rs represents the Fresnel Amplitude Reflection Coefficient Ratio with respect to the s-polarized light.
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r p =E r p /E i p (2) -
r s =E r s /E i s (3) - As shown in
FIG. 1 , Ei p represents the p-polarized component of the incident light, and Ei s represents the s-polarized component of the incident light. Further, Er p represents the p-polarized component of the emitted light and Er s represents the s-polarized component of the emitted light. N0 and N1 represent refractive indices of atmosphere and substrate. - The amplitude reflection coefficient is a complex number and indicates the changes of the amplitude and phase. Thus, the Fresnel Amplitude Reflection Coefficient ρ is defined by the following formula (4).
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ρ=tan Ψ×e iΔ (4) - Here, tan Ψ represents a ratio of the amplitudes of the p-polarized light and s-polarized light of the reflected light (refer to the formula (5)), and Δ represents the difference of the phases of the p-polarized light and s-polarized light of the reflected light (refer to formula (6)).
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tan Ψ=|r p |/|r s| (5) -
Δ=δr p −δr s (6) - Then, the present inventors particularly noted the difference Δ of the phases of the p-polarized light and s-polarized light of the reflected light (refer to the formula (6)) in the visual light range (range between a wavelength of 400 nm and 760 nm), measured Δ after subjecting the bonding surfaces of the piezoelectric material substrate and supporting substrate to various kinds of processes, and observed the relationship of this and the spurious wave. As a result, in the visual light range (wavelength range between 400 nm and 760 nm), it is found that the spurious wave can be considerably suppressed, in the case that the relative change (difference of the maximum and minimum values) of the phase difference Δ of the p-polarized light and s-polarized light of the reflected light. Specifically, the effect of suppressing the spurious wave is observed in the case that the difference of the maximum and minimum values of the phase difference Δ is 70° or smaller.
- Although the reason that such effects could be obtained is unclear, it is understood that optical rotation effect of the visual light is observed near the processed surface of the piezoelectric material substrate or supporting substrate to change the polarized state. Here, for example as shown in
FIG. 7 , the phase difference Δ generally tends to be larger in a short wavelength range and tends to be smaller in a long wavelength range. This means that the light of a shorter wavelength has larger light-rotation effect. Here, according to the inventive examples (inventive examples 1 and 3), the difference of the phase differences A on the sides of short wavelength and on the side of long wavelength is relatively small, so that the chart is smooth. Contrary to this, according to the comparative example, as the substrate surface is a mirror surface, the difference between the phase difference Δ on the side of short wavelength and the phase difference Δ on the side of long wavelength is large, so that the chart is steep. It is considered that the results reflect the change of microstructure of a surface denaturing layer near the processed surface. - On the viewpoint of the present invention, in the wavelength range between 400 nm and 760 nm, the difference of the maximum and minimum values of the phase difference Δ of the p-polarized light and s-polarized light of the reflected light is made 70° or smaller, may preferably be 65° or smaller and most preferably be 60° or smaller. Further, in the wavelength range between 400 nm and 760 nm, the difference of the maximum and minimum values of the phase difference Δ of the p-polarized light and s-polarized light may preferably be 20° or larger and more preferably be 25° or larger.
- It is preferred to apply the following processing method for controlling the measurement results by the spectral ellipsometry of the bonding surface of the piezoelectric material substrate or supporting substrate as described above.
- As to the method for roughening the surfaces, it is listed a mechanical processing method such as grinding process by grinding stones or blast processing by micro media such as alumina or silicon nitride, and ion beam processing of colliding ions at a high speed.
- Respective constituents of the present invention will be described further in detail below.
- Although the material of the supporting
substrate 1 is not particularly limited, the material is preferably selected from the group consisting of silicon, quartz, sialon, mullite, sapphire and translucent alumina. It is thus possible to further improve the temperature characteristics on frequency of theacoustic wave device - Although the film-forming method of the bonding layer or intermediate layer is not particularly limited, sputtering method, chemical vapor deposition (CVD) method and vapor deposition method may be listed.
- Although the material of the
bonding layer 2 is not particularly limited as far as the surface activation process is possible, a metal oxide film is preferred, and the material may preferably be selected from the group consisting of silicon oxide, silicon nitride, aluminum nitride, alumina, tantalum pentoxide, mullite, niobium pentoxide and titanium oxide. Further, as the surface activation method, an appropriate method may be selected depending on the material used for the bonding layer. Such surface activation method includes plasma activation and FAB (Ar atomic beam). - Although the material of the
intermediate layer 12 is not particularly limited as far as the surface activation processing is possible, a metal oxide film is preferred, and it is particularly preferred a material selected from the group consisting of silicon oxide, silicon nitride, aluminum nitride, alumina, tantalum pentoxide, mullite, niobium pentoxide and titanium oxide. Further, it is preferred to select the material of the intermediate layer different from that of the bonding layer. - The thickness of the
bonding layer 2 may preferably be 0.05 μm or larger, more preferably be 0.1 μm or larger and most preferably be 0.2 μm or larger on the viewpoint of the present invention. Further, the thickness of thebonding layer 2 may preferably be 3 μm or smaller, more preferably be 2 μm or smaller and further preferably be 1 μm or smaller. - The
piezoelectric material substrate 3 used in the present invention is composed of lithium tantalate (LT) single crystal, lithium niobate (LN) single crystal, or lithium niobate-lithium tantalate solid solution. As the materials have high propagation speed of an acoustic wave and large electromechanical coupling factor, they are suitable for a surface acoustic wave device of a high frequency and wide-band frequency application. - Further, although the normal line direction of the
main surface 3 a of thepiezoelectric material substrate 3 is not particularly limited, for example, in the case that thepiezoelectric material substrate 3 is made of LT, it is preferred to use the substrate rotated from Y-axis toward Z-axis by 32 to 55° ((180°, 58 to 35°, 180°) on Euler angle representation) around X-axis, which is a direction of propagation of a surface acoustic wave, because of a low propagation loss. In the case that thepiezoelectric material substrate 3 is made of LN, (i) it is preferred to use the substrate rotated from Z axis toward -Y-axis by 37.8° ((0°, 37.8°, 0°) on Euler angle representation) around X-axis, which is the direction of propagation of the surface acoustic wave, because of a larger electromechanical coupling factor. Alternatively, (ii) it is preferred to use the substrate rotated from Y axis toward Z axis by 40 to 65° ((180°, 50 to 25°, 180°) on Euler angle representation) around X-axis, which is the direction of propagation of the surface acoustic wave, because of a high sound velocity. Further, although the size of thepiezoelectric material substrate 3 is not particularly limited, for example, the diameter may be 100 to 200 mm and thickness may be 0.15 to 1 μm. - Plasma is then irradiated onto the bonding surfaces of the
bonding layer 2 on the supportingsubstrate 1, of thepiezoelectric material substrate 3 and of theintermediate layer 12 on thepiezoelectric material substrate 3 at a temperature of 150° C. or lower, to activate the bonding surfaces. On the viewpoint of the present invention, although it is preferred to irradiate nitrogen plasma, it is possible to obtain the inventive bonded body even in the case that oxygen plasma is irradiated. - The pressure during the surface activation may preferably be 100 Pa or lower and more preferably be 80 Pa or lower. Further, the atmosphere may be composed of nitrogen only, oxygen only or mixture of nitrogen and oxygen.
- The temperature during plasma irradiation is made 150° C. or lower. It is thus possible to obtain a bonded body having a high bonding strength and without deterioration of crystallinity. On the viewpoint, the temperature during the plasma irradiation is made 150° C. or lower, and may preferably be made 100° C. or lower.
- Further, the energy of the plasma irradiation may preferably be 30 to 150 W. Further, the product of the energy and irradiation time duration of the irradiated plasma may preferably be 0.12 to 1.0 Wh.
- The plasma-treated bonding surfaces of the piezoelectric material substrate and bonding layer are contacted with each other at room temperature. The treatment may be performed in vacuum and the contact may preferably be performed in atmosphere.
- When the activation of the surfaces is performed using the argon atomic beam, it is preferred to use a system described in Japanese patent publication No. 2014-086400A to generate the argon atomic beam, which is irradiated. That is, it is used a high-speed atomic beam source of saddle field type as the beam source. Then, inert gas is introduced into the chamber and a high voltage is applied onto electrodes from a direct current electric source. By this, electric field of saddle field type generated between the electrode (positive electrode) and a housing (negative electrode) causes motion of electrons, e, so that argon atomic and ion beams are generated. Among the beams reached at a grid, the ion beam is neutralized at the grid, and the beam of argon atoms is emitted from the high-speed atomic beam source. In the activation step by beam irradiation, the voltage may preferably be made 0.5 to 2.0 kV, and the current may preferably be made 50 to 200 mA.
- According to a preferred embodiment, before the surface activation treatment, the bonding surfaces of the bonding layer on the supporting substrate, of the piezoelectric material substrate and of the intermediate layer on the piezoelectric material substrate are subjected to flattening process. The method of flattening the respective surfaces includes lapping, chemical mechanical polishing (CMP) and the like. Further, the flattened surfaces may preferably have Ra of 1 nm or lower and more preferably be 0.3 nm or lower.
- Then, the bonding surface of the bonding layer on the supporting substrate and the bonding surface of the
piezoelectric material substrate 3 or bonding surface of the intermediate layer are contacted and bonded with each other. Thereafter, it is preferred to improve the bonding strength by performing annealing treatment. The temperature for the annealing treatment may preferably be 100° C. or higher and 300° C. or lower. - The bonded
bodies acoustic wave devices - Specifically, as the
acoustic wave devices - The material forming the
electrodes 10 on thepiezoelectric material substrate 3A may preferably be aluminum, aluminum alloy, copper or gold and more preferably be aluminum or aluminum alloy. The aluminum alloy used may preferably be Al doped with 0.3 to 5 weight percent of Cu. In this case, Ti, Mg, Ni, Mo, or Ta may be used instead of Cu. - It was produced an
acoustic wave device 6 shown inFIG. 4(c) , according to the method described referring toFIGS. 2 to 4 . - Specifically, one
main surface 3 c of a 42Y-cut X-propagation LiTaO3 substrate (piezoelectric material substrate) 3 having a thickness of 250 μm was polished into mirror surface and the othermain surface 3 a was subjected to lapping with GC #1000. Further, it was prepared a Si(100) substrate (supporting substrate) 1 having a thickness of 0.23 mm and high resistance (>2 kΩ·cm). The sizes of the respective substrates were 150 mm. - The bonding surface of the supporting substrate was then subjected to processing into a roughened surface. According to the present example, it was performed grinding process using grinding stones of number of #6000. The amount of the processing was made about 3 μm.
- As the bonding surface of the supporting substrate was measured by the spectral ellipsometry, provided that Δ is assigned to the difference of the phases of p-polarized light and s-polarized light of the reflected light, the difference of the maximum and minimum values of the phase difference Δ in a wavelength range of 400 nm to 760 nm was proved to be 31.3°.
- A
silicon oxide film 2 was the film-formed in 0.7 μm on thebonding surface 1 a of the supportingsubstrate 1, and the surface was polished by CMP (chemical mechanical polishing) in about 0.2 um for the flattening. Then, thebonding surface 3 b of thepiezoelectric material substrate 3 and bonding surface of thesilicon oxide film 2 were activated by N2 plasma, respectively, and then bonded with each other in atmosphere. Specifically, as the surface roughness of the bonding layer after the polishing was measured by AFM (Atomic force Microscope), it was confirmed that a mirror surface having Ra of 0.4 nm could be obtained sufficient for the bonding. - Then, the
bonding surface 3 b of thepiezoelectric material substrate 3 andbonding surface 2 b of thebonding layer 2 were subjected to cleaning and surface activation, respectively. Specifically, ultrasonic cleaning by pure water was performed and the substrate surface was dried by spin drying. Then, the supporting substrate after the cleaning was introduced into a plasma activation chamber and the bonding surface of the bonding layer was activated at 30° C. by nitrogen gas plasma. Thepiezoelectric material substrate 3 was similarly introduced in the plasma activation chamber and subjected to surface activation by nitrogen plasma at 30° C. The time period of the surface activation was made 40 seconds, and the energy was made 100 W. The ultrasonic cleaning and spin drying were performed again as described above, for removing particles adhered during the surface activation. - The positions of the respective substrates were then adjusted so that the activated bonding surfaces of the respective substrates were contacted with each other at room temperature. The
piezoelectric material substrate 3 was positioned on the upper side when the substrates were contacted. As a result, it was observed the state (so-called bonding wave) that the adhesion of the substrates was spreading to prove that good preliminary bonding was accomplished. The bonded body was then charged into an oven filled with nitrogen atmosphere and held at 130° C. for 40 hours, for improving the bonding strength. - The
surface 3 c of thepiezoelectric material substrate 3 of the bonded body after the heating was subjected to grinding, lapping and CMP processing so that the thickness of thepiezoelectric material substrate 3A reached 7 μm. - Then, for confirming the effects of the present invention, a comb-shaped electrode made of aluminum metal was formed on the piezoelectric material substrate of the bonded body, to produce a resonator of a surface acoustic wave device. The specification was shown as follows.
- IDT period: 6 μm
- IDT opening length: 300 um
- Number of IDT lines: 80 lines
- Number of lines of reflector: 40 lines
- As the reflection characteristics of the resonator was measured by a network analyzer, spurious was hardly observed in a range higher than an anti-resonance frequency, as shown in
FIG. 8 . The value of the spurious wave was proved to be 2.7 dB. - The results were shown in table 1.
- It was produced the resonator of the surface acoustic wave device according to the same procedure as that in the inventive example 1, and the reflection characteristics of the resonator was measured by the network analyzer. However, the processing of the bonding surface of the supporting substrate was performed by grinding the bonding surface by grinding stones of #8000.
- Further, as the bonding surface of the supporting substrate was measured by the spectral ellipsometry, provided that Δ is assigned to the difference of the phases of p-polarized light and s-polarized light of the reflected light, the difference of the maximum and minimum values of the phase difference Δ in a wavelength range of 400 nm to 760 nm was proved to be 37.4°. The amplitude of the spurious wave was proved to be 3.2 dB.
- It was produced the resonator of the surface acoustic wave device according to the same procedure as the inventive example 1, and the reflection characteristics of the resonator was measured by the network analyzer. However, the processing of the bonding layer of the supporting substrate was performed by blasting of the whole surface of the substrate by silicon nitride particles. The amount of the processing was evaluated and proved to be as small as 10 nm.
- As the bonding surface of the supporting substrate was measured by the spectral ellipsometry, provided that Δ is assigned to the difference of the phases of p-polarized light and s-polarized light of the reflected light, the difference of the maximum and minimum values of the phase difference Δ in a wavelength range of 400 nm to 760 nm was proved to be 58.5° in the wavelength range of 400 nm to 760 nm.
- The amplitude of the spurious wave was proved to be 4.8 dB.
- The resonator of the surface acoustic wave device was produced according to the same procedure as that of the inventive example 1, and the reflection characteristics of the resonator was measured by the network analyzer. However, the processing of the bonding surface of the supporting substrate was performed by charging the supporting substrate in an ion processing machine and by colliding Ar ions accelerated at 0.5 keV.
- As the bonding surface of the supporting substrate was measured by the spectral ellipsometry, provided that Δ is assigned to the difference of the phases of p-polarized light and s-polarized light of the reflected light, the difference of the maximum and minimum values of the phase difference Δ in a wavelength range of 400 nm to 760 nm was proved to be 42.8°.
- As a result, the amplitude of the spurious wave was proved to be 3.3 dB.
- The resonator of the surface acoustic wave device was produced according to the same procedure as that of the inventive example 1, and the reflection characteristics of the resonator was measured by the network analyzer. However, the processing of the bonding surface was performed by charging the supporting substrate in an ion processing machine and by colliding Ar ions accelerated at 1.0 keV.
- Further, as the bonding surface of the supporting substrate was measured by the spectral ellipsometry, provided that Δ is assigned to the difference of the phases of p-polarized light and s-polarized light of the reflected light, the difference of the maximum and minimum values of the phase difference Δ in a wavelength range of 400 nm to 760 nm was proved to be 50.9°.
- The amplitude of the spurious wave was proved to be 3.5 dB.
- The resonator of the surface acoustic wave device was produced according to the same procedure as that of the inventive example 1, and the reflection characteristics of the resonator was measured by the network analyzer. However, as the bonding surface of the supporting substrate was made a mirror surface, Ra was 0.02 nm.
- As the bonding surface of the supporting substrate was measured by the spectral ellipsometry, provided that Δ is assigned to the difference of the phases of p-polarized light and s-polarized light of the reflected light, the difference of the maximum and minimum values of the phase difference Δ in a wavelength range of 400 nm to 760 nm was proved to be 85.0°.
- Spurious was observed in the reflection characteristics, as shown in
FIG. 9 . The amplitude of the spurious wave was 12 dB. -
TABLE 1 Difference of maximum and minimum values of Δ (°) Spurious (dB) Inventive 31.3 2.7 Example 1 Inventive 37.4 3.2 Example 2 Inventive 58.5 4.8 Example 3 Inventive 42.8 3.3 Example 4 Inventive 50.9 3.5 Example 5 Comparative 85.0 12 Example
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