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Piezoelectric resonator and method for fabricating the same

US5929555A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateApr 15, 1997
Grant dateJul 27, 1999
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Expiry dateApr 15, 2017

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  • Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
  • CPC primaryY10T29/49004
  • WIPO fieldBasic communication processes
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A wafer with a reversed domain is prepared for two piezoelectric single crystal plates 11 and 12 having about the same thickness as each other by using direct bonding without any adhesive. Then, driving electrodes 13 are formed on two principal planes of the wafer with a reversed domain to provide a piezoelectric resonator. A piezoelectric resonator having the structure with a reverses polarization and using odd-order vibration modes vibrating with a fundamental wave has a wavelength of a thickness thereof suppresses scattering of the thickness of the domains with a reversed polarization. In the direct bonding, the axes of the spontaneous polarization of the two piezoelectric single crystal plates are reverse to each other and crystalline axes other than the axes of polarization are shifted intentionally by an angle other than zero. Thus, spurious modes are suppressed in a simple way.

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