WO2002005425A1 - Improvements in or relating to filters - Google Patents
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- the present invention concerns improvements in or relating to filters, and in particular to a method for hermetically packaging filters comprising a plurality of Bulk Acoustic Resonators (BARs) fabricated on a semiconductor or insulating wafer.
- BARs Bulk Acoustic Resonators
- FBARs Thin Film Bulk Acoustic Resonators
- FBARs Thin Film Bulk Acoustic Resonators
- FBARs can be used to make electronic filters which are very small in size ( ⁇ lmm).
- ⁇ lmm very small in size
- FIG 1 shows one example of a filter comprising four FBARs.
- the four FBARs are separated into 2 groups according to their functions in the filter.
- FBAR1 and FBAR2 in Figure 1 are connected in series. Therefore they form one group.
- FBAR3 and FBAR4 are connected in parallel and form the other group.
- all the FBARs are prepared simultaneously and on one substrate under the Same procedures. Therefore each FBAR consists of very closely similar structures.
- the typical design of an FBAR is well known.
- the basic physical structure of an FBAR consists of a thin piezoelectric layer made of some material such as ZnO, A1N or lead zirconate titanate (PZT) sandwiched between two conductive electrodes, usually made of a metal such as aluminium or gold.
- PZT lead zirconate titanate
- the piezoelectric layer is freely suspended by etching away part of the substrate immediately below the active part of the piezoelectric layer, although in some versions of the device, the underlying substrate is not removed, but a multi-layer structure is deposited immediately under the active piezoelectric layer. This serves to reflect acoustic power back from the substrate into the resonator and such a structure is known as a solidly-mounted resonator or SBAR.
- the present invention has been made from a consideration of the foregoing and seeks to provide a technique for hermetically packaging such devices which meets at least some of these requirements.
- the present invention provides a method for hermetically packaging a filter including the steps of providing a first wafer bearing a plurality of bulk acoustic resonators (BARs), providing a second wafer having a plurality of wells, bonding the first and second wafers to each other to form a composite wafer in which the BARs of the first wafer are aligned with the wells of the second wafer, and separating individual filters.
- BARs bulk acoustic resonators
- the filter comprises a plurality of FBARs of which at least one FBAR is in series and one FBAR in parallel.
- Each FBAR preferably comprises a plurality of layers consisting of (from lower to upper): a substrate, a dielectric layer, one or more metal layers acting as a lower electrode, a piezoelectric layer, one or more metal layers acting as an upper electrode and any top layer (optional) which might be added to effect further adjustable mass loading.
- This final layer can be either a conductor or an insulator.
- a plurality of separate FBAR filter devices may be fabricated simultaneously on one substrate using the well known techniques of photolithographic patterning and etching which have been developed for the semiconductor industry. These devices are separated into individual devices by sawing after fabrication.
- the package consists of at least one wafer of material, which should ideally be a material selected to give good thermal expansion match to the material used for the substrate used to bear the FBAR filters, said wafer or wafers being bonded to the wafer bearing the FBAR filter, and having previously been etched or micromachined to form a cavity over the active area of the FBAR device.
- the wafer or wafers bonded to the FBAR substrate are micromachined to provide openings, through which electrical contacts can be made to the signal and earth lines of the FBAR filters.
- the individual filters are separated after processing by sawing into individual components.
- FIG. 2 One embodiment of an FBAR device produced by the method according to the present invention is shown schematically in Figure 2.
- wafer 1 is the wafer bearing the FBAR filter.
- layer 2 is the piezoelectric material
- layer 3 is an etch- stop layer such as silicon nitride
- layers 4 and 5 are metal layers forming upper and lower electrodes for the FBAR resonators
- layer 6 is another layer of a material such as SiO 2 or silicon nitride forming an etching mask on the back face of wafer 1.
- the cavity 7 is formed by bulk micro-machining of wafer 1 in order to release the layers carrying the FBAR resonators.
- Wafer 8 is a second wafer sealing over the FBAR devices on wafer 1.
- a third wafer 14 is bonded to the back face of wafer 1 using a bonding layer 15. This forms a protective seal to the rear cavities of the device. Clearly, this would not be required for those FBAR devices which are formed by etching from the front face alone, or for SBAR devices.
- FBAR filter devices can be made on a single wafer of a material such as silicon and the basic principle of this invention is that the processing of the FBAR devices, and the processing and bonding of the sealing wafers is done on a wafer-scale. The individual packaged FBAR devices are only separated one from another by sawing after the packaging operation is complete.
- Figure 1 illustrates a schematic diagram of a preferred filter which comprises two FBARs in series and two FBARs in parallel;
- Figure 2 illustrates a schematic diagram of one possible embodiment of a complete packaged FBAR according to this invention
- Figure 3 illustrates a top view and a cross section view of an FBAR
- Figure 4 shows a plurality of FBAR resonators connected in series / parallel arrangement to make a ladder filter
- Figure 5 illustrates Wafer A bearing the FBAR filters and Wafer B, being the first wafer to be bonded to Wafer A, and how wells are etched into face Bl of Wafer B to accommodate the FBAR filters;
- Figure 6 illustrates Wafers A and B bonded together to make a composite Wafer AB and Wafer C, the wafer used to seal the back face cavities on Wafer A;
- Figure 7 illustrates the composite Wafer ABC with the holes etched into the face B2 to make contact with the metal tracks leading to the FBAR filters
- Figure 8 illustrates how the holes etched into face B2 are filled with metal and contact pads made on the surface
- Figure 9 illustrates how contact pads can be deposited on the edges of the chip bearing the FBAR filter.
- SiN x silicon nitride
- SiN x membrane layer 18 is also at the front side of the Si wafer 16.
- patterns are prepared with photolithograpy and reactive ion etching in the SiN x , as defined by the backside layer pattern 17.
- a bottom electrode 21 is prepared with the so-called lift-off process which is carried out as follows. First a pattern of photoresist is prepared with photolithograpy. Then, chromium and gold (Cr/Au) are deposited by sputtering at thicknesses at lOnm and lOOnm, respectively. Cr is used as an adhesion layer for the Au. Next, the patterned photoresist and Cr/Au on it are removed with acetone because the photoresist dissolves in acetone. After that procedure, a bottom electrode 21 is obtained. Next, zinc oxide (ZnO) is deposited to form the piezoelectric layer 19 by sputtering. The thickness of the piezoelectric layer 19 is 1.2 microns. The piezoelectric layer 19 is etched with acetic acid to make a contact hole 22 in order to touch a bottom electrode 21 with an electrical probe.
- ZnO zinc oxide
- a top electrode 20 is prepared by the lift-off process.
- the top electrode 20 has a transmission line and a square working area 24 on which one dimension is 200 microns, shown as L in Figure 2.
- the working area size is the same for the bottom electrode 21.
- the top electrode 20 When the top electrode 20 is prepared, two ground electrodes 23 are prepared as well under the same lift-off process, so the top electrode 20 has a coplanar wave-guide structure for which the characteristic impedance is set at about 50 ohms.
- the Si wafer 16 is etched from its backside with KOH solution, using the backside pattern layer 17 and the preparation process for the filter is finished. It is well known that it is normal to make the FBAR resonators in series and in parallel with different areas.
- Figure 4 shows a ladder filter which would use six of these FBAR resonators wired in series 25 and parallel 26.
- the numbers of FBARs in series 25 and FBARs in parallel 26 are not restricted to 3 each. These numbers should be decided by the need for a particular level of close-in rejection, the required area size for the filter and so on.
- FBARs which are used as a FBAR in series 25 and a FBAR in parallel 26, are not restricted to be an FBAR which comprises an etched hole on Si wafer 20 at the backside of a bottom electrode 21.
- An air gap under the resonant layer can be created by some other etching method such as deep reactive ion etching from the back of the wafer 16 or etching the substrate material from the front of the wafer so that a well propagates sideways under the resonant layer, or by etching a sacrificial material from under the piezoelectric layer from the front of the wafer.
- a multilayer Bragg reflector may be used at the backside of the bottom electrode 21.
- wafer 16 is not necessarily made from Si.
- Another type of substrate can be used for the FBAR filter, such as sapphire or magnesium oxide.
- the FBAR filter can comprise more than one piezoelectric layer which are designed to couple with one another acoustically. All of the FBAR filters so described can be packaged hermetically on a wafer scale by using the method described in this invention.
- a wafer bearing a plurality of FBAR filters is fabricated as described in the preceding paragraphs.
- a wafer 27 (called here Wafer A) bearing a plurality of FBAR filters 28 made according to an FBAR filter design consisting of several individual linked FBAR resonators with one or more cavities 29 etched underneath the active portions of the piezoelectric layer.
- a second wafer 30 (called here Wafer B) is fabricated with wells 32 etched in the surface so that the positions of the wells 32 coincide with the active portions of the FBAR filters 28 on the first wafer 27 when the two wafers are placed face-to-face. This is accomplished as described below.
- Wafer B is coated on both faces with layers of silicon nitride 30'.
- a layer of a bonding medium 33 is deposited onto the face (here called face Bl - the opposite face of this wafer being face B2).
- Face Bl will eventually be bonded to Wafer A.
- Suitable bonding media would be a borosilicate glass if anodic bonding were to be used. Alternatively a low melting point glass could be deposited.
- Such glasses can be deposited by a process such as RF magnetron sputtering.
- Windows 31 are opened in the silicon nitride (using photolithography and dry etching). The positions of these windows 31 are fixed to match the positions of the active regions of the FBAR filters 28 on Wafer A.
- Wells 32 are etched in face Bl by exposing the face to a suitable etching medium. In the case of a silicon wafer this would be, for example, a solution of KOH in propanol or a mixture of ethylenediamine and pyrocatechol. Alternatively a dry etching technique could be used to achieve a similar end.
- the depth of the well 32 has to be sufficient (typically a few micrometers) simply so that the FBAR resonators are not in contact with any part of Wafer B when the two wafers A and B are brought together.
- Wafers A and B are then cleaned to remove any particulate debris or other surface contaminants and brought together in proper alignment and bonded, preferably under a vacuum so that the wells 32 are evacuated.
- An anodic bond can be created by raising the temperature of the wafers to a few hundred degrees centigrade and applying a potential difference between the wafers of a few hundred volts.
- the temperature of the wafers can be raised to a temperature close to the melting point of the glass and a pressure applied to the wafers to effect a bond.
- a suitable metal or alloy layer can be deposited onto both faces to be bonded together prior to them being brought together for bonding again under elevated temperature and with applied pressure.
- the Wafers A and B are thus bonded together to form a composite wafer 36 (called here Wafer AB) as shown in Figure 6.
- Wafer C The next stage of the process is to seal the back face of Wafer A by bonding a third wafer 34 (called here Wafer C) to it.
- Wafer C is coated on both faces Cl, C2 with layers of silicon nitride 30' and on face Cl with a layer 35 of one of the bonding media as described previously.
- this face Cl is brought into contact (preferably under vacuum so that the cavities 29 are evacuated) with the back face of the composite Wafer AB (36) and bonded to it as described previously (for example through anodic bonding).
- Wafer ABC composite wafer 37 formed by a stack of three wafers A, B, C all bonded together as shown in Figure 7.
- the final stage in the process is to make contact with the metal tracks 20, 21, 23 and 24 of the FBAR devices. This is achieved by etching via holes 39 through face B2 of the composite Wafer ABC as described below with reference to Figures 7 and 8.
- Windows 38 are opened in the silicon nitride layer 30' on face B2. These are positioned so that when holes 39 are etched through these windows (preferably, although not essentially using a dry deep reactive ion etching process), the holes 39 that are produced will eventually intersect with the metal tracks. Any residual silicon nitride or oxide is removed by a combination of dry and/or wet etching to expose the said metal tracks.
- the insides of the holes 39 are then coated with an insulating layer and filled with metal 40 as shown in Figure 8 using either thermal evaporation, sputtering, electroless plating, electro-plating or some combination of these or similar methods and the metal on the surface B2 is patterned to leave contact pads which can subsequently be used to make electrical contact through to the metal tracks leading to the FBAR filter.
- the wafer processing is then complete and the individual devices can be separated by sawing or by etching deep grooves in the faces of the composite silicon wafer using a deep reactive ion etching process.
- this technique of wafer scale hermetic packaging can easily be applied to FBAR filters which are made on substrates other than silicon, for example sapphire. It will also be appreciated that the method can be applied to other types of FBAR or SBAR filters. For example, if the FBAR filter is of the design where no etching is applied from the back face of the wafer to release the resonant membrane, but the etching is done entirely from the front face, then the Wafer C in the above description can be dispensed with and the hermetic package made with Wafer B alone. In this case the contact holes can be etched from either side of the resulting composite wafer.
- a method is provided according to this invention by which filters consisting of a plurality of thin film bulk acoustic resonators (FBAR) fabricated on a semiconductor wafer such as silicon or some other type of wafer can be hermetically packaged in a way that presents a component such as a chip which can be easily handled by conventional pick-and-place machines.
- FBAR thin film bulk acoustic resonators
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