Abstract:
An electronic component includes a glass substrate, a lid that is bonded to the glass substrate, an internal electrode, an external electrode, and a through electrode that is disposed in a through hole passing through the glass substrate and electrically connects the internal electrode to the external electrode. A sputtered metal layer is formed on the end face of a core member of the through electrode, which is made of a metal, by sputtering.
Abstract:
An anodic wafer bonding method according to the present invention is an anodic wafer bonding method for bonding a first substrate formed of an insulating material or a dielectric material and a second substrate which can be anodically bonded by applying a voltage to a bonding film formed of a conductive material formed between the substrates in a state in which the first substrate and the second substrate are laminated, in which the voltage is applied to the bonding film from a plurality of points at the time of anodic wafer bonding.
Abstract:
A process of manufacturing a piezoelectric vibrator comprises a base substrate; a lid substrate in which cavity recesses are formed and which is bonded to the base substrate in such a state that the recesses face the base substrate; a piezoelectric vibration member bonded to the upper face of the base substrate in such a state that it is housed in the cavity formed of the recess between the base substrate and the lid substrate; an external electrode formed on the lower face of the base substrate; a through- electrode formed in and through the base substrate and electrically connected with the external electrode with keeping the airtightness inside the cavity; and a routing electrode formed on the upper face of the base substrate to electrically connect the through-electrode to the bonded piezoelectric vibration member; wherein the through-electrode is formed in the base substrate by utilizing an electroconductive tack member having a tabular basis part and a core part extending from the basis part toward a direction perpendicular from a surface of the tabular basis part, where the core part is inserted into a through-hole formed in the base substrate and the basis part is removed by polishing the base substrate.
Abstract:
Provided are a vacuum package and a method for manufacturing the vacuum package having excellent airtightness and capable of improving mounting strength, and a piezoelectric vibrator, an oscillator, an electronic device, and a radio-controlled timepiece. The package includes a base substrate and a lid substrate bonded to each other, a cavity formed between the base substrate and the lid substrate and configured to be capable of sealing a piezoelectric vibrating reed, and penetration electrodes penetrating through the base substrate in the thickness direction so as to make the inner side of the cavity and the outer side conductive. Portions of the base substrate and the lid substrate in the vicinity of the cavity form bonding regions in which the two substrates are bonded. A notch portion through which the bonding surface of the lid substrate is exposed as seen from the thickness direction of the base substrate is formed on the corner portions of the base substrate.
Abstract:
There is provided a method of manufacturing piezoelectric vibrators 1. The method includes a process for through holes 35 and 36, which pass through a base substrate wafer, so that openings of the through holes are opened to the outside of the recesses for cavities C; a process for patterning a bonding layer 30, pairs of mounting layers, and pairs of extraction electrode layers 33 and 34 on the upper surface of the base substrate wafer with the same conductive material; and a process for electrically isolating the extraction electrode layers 34 in the middle by irradiating a part (area S2) of the extraction electrode layers 34, which are formed between the bonding layer and openings of through holes 36, with laser light after both the wafers are anodically bonded to each other. The bonding layer 30 surrounds the recesses, the pairs of mounting layers are in the recesses, and the pairs of extraction electrode layers 33 and 34 electrically connect the pairs of mounting layers to the bonding layer.
Abstract:
Providing an anodic bonding method capable of suppressing uneven quality between the central and outer sides of a bonding surface being anodically bonded. There is provided an anodic bonding method of anodically bonding a base wafer 10 and a lid wafer 11, the method including: a superimposition step of superimposing the base wafer 10 and the lid wafer 11 onto each other in a direction where a bonding film 9 faces a cavity C; a pressurizing step of, subsequent to the superimposition step, pressurizing and holding the base wafer 10 and the lid wafer 11 in a vacuum state in the superimposition direction; and a voltage application step of, subsequent to the pressurizing step, partitioning and setting a plurality of intended bonding areas A1, A2, A3 and A4 in a concentric form on a contacting surface where the base wafer 10 and the lid wafer 11 are in contact with each other and applying a DC voltage to each of the plurality of intended bonding areas A1, A2, A3 and A4 while sequentially switching the intended bonding areas A1, A2, A3 and A4 from a central side of the intended bonding areas A1, A2, A3 and A4 towards an outer side in a diameter direction thereof, wherein in the voltage application step, an application time of the DC voltage corresponding to each of the plurality of intended bonding areas A1, A2, A3 and A4 is set to be constant for each of the intended bonding areas A1, A2, A3 and A4.
Abstract:
There is There is provided a method of manufacturing a package 1 having a base substrate 10 and a lid substrate 20 bonded to each other and both formed of a glass base material; and a cavity C formed between the both substrates for storing an encapsulated object 2 in a state of being hermetically encapsulated, including: a depression forming step for forming a depression C1 for a cavity which defines the cavity when the both substrates are superimposed to each other on at least one of the both substrates; and a bonding step for superimposing the both substrates so as to store the encapsulated object in the depression and then bonding the both substrates to encapsulate the encapsulated object in the cavity, characterized in that in the depression forming step, printed layers 12 are laminated on an upper surface of a flat plate-shaped glass base material 11 in a frame shape in plan view by screen printing, and then the printed layers and the glass base material are baked at the same time to form the depression.
Abstract:
A method of manufacturing a quartz crystal vibrating piece is provided. Etching masks of different sizes are each arranged on respective front and rear surfaces of a quartz crystal wafer such that the etching mask on one of the surfaces (e.g., the rear surface) is larger than the other etching mask. The quartz crystal wafer is etched using the etching masks so that a projection is formed on a side of the quartz crystal wafer due to the difference in size of the etching masks, and is overetched to remove the projection.
Abstract:
To provide a piezoelectric vibrator, an oscillator, an electronic part, an electronic apparatus, a method of fabricating a piezoelectric vibrator and a method of fabricating an electronic part capable of swiftly and easily providing a plurality of electrodes for applying a voltage to a piezoelectric vibrating piece while maintaining airtightness at inside of a hermetically sealed vessel, there is provided a piezoelectric vibrator including a hermetically sealed vessel 2 constituted by overlapping a lid member 6 and a base member 7 in a plate-like shape, a piezoelectric vibrating piece 3 provided at inside of the hermetically sealed vessel 2, a lead-out electrode 16 provided at an overlapping face 6a of the lid member 6, electrically connected to the piezoelectric vibrating piece 3 by way of a connecting portion, and extending the connecting portion 15 to an edge portion of the overlapping face 6a of the lid member 6, an external electrode 27 electrically connected to the lead-out electrode 16 from a side face of the hermetically sealed vessel 2, and a bonding film 20 comprising a metal or silicone provided between the overlapping face 6a of the lid member 6 and an overlapping face 7a of the base member 7, in which an insulating film 22 is provided between the lead-out electrode 16 and the bonding film 20.
Abstract:
To provide a quartz crystal vibrator, an oscillator and an electronic apparatus capable of preventing a bonding electrode from being corroded and easily maintaining soundness of the bonding electrode over a long period of time, a quartz crystal vibrator is provided with a quartz crystal vibrating plate formed by surrounding a quartz crystal vibrating piece by a frame-like portion, a hermetically closed vessel including a lid member and a base member in a plate-like shape for interposing the quartz crystal vibrating plate in a thickness direction, bonding electrodes provided between the lid member and the quartz crystal vibrating plate and between the base member and the quartz crystal vibrating plate and electrically connected to an inner electrode, and a protecting film for protecting the bonding electrode, provided with a recess portion recessed to an inner side of the hermetically closed vessel from an outer edge portion between the lid member and the quartz crystal vibrating plate and an outer edge portion between the base member and the quartz crystal vibrating plate, the protecting film is provided at the recess portion and the bonding electrode is disposed on the inner side of the recess portion.