Piezoelectric deformable photonic devices

    公开(公告)号:US11569431B1

    公开(公告)日:2023-01-31

    申请号:US16989535

    申请日:2020-08-10

    摘要: A CMOS-compatible actuator platform for implementing phase, amplitude, and frequency modulation in silicon nitride photonic integrated circuits via piezo-optomechanical coupling using tightly mechanically coupled aluminum nitride actuators is disclosed. The platform, which may be fabricated in a CMOS foundry, enables scalable active photonic integrated circuits for visible wavelengths, and the piezoelectric actuation functions without performance degradation down to cryogenic operating temperatures. A number of devices are possible, including ring modulator devices, phase shifter devices, Mach-Zehnder interferometer devices, directional coupler devices (including tunable directional coupler devices), and acousto-optic modulator and frequency shifter devices, each of which can employ the same AlN actuator platform. As all of these devices can be built on the same AlN actuator platform, numerous optical functions can be implemented on a single die.

    LAMINATED PIEZOELECTRIC ELEMENT AND ELECTROACOUSTIC TRANSDUCER

    公开(公告)号:US20230019706A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-01-19

    申请号:US17946825

    申请日:2022-09-16

    摘要: Provided are a laminated piezoelectric element and an electroacoustic transducer capable of obtaining high piezoelectric characteristics and easily ensuring an electric contact to an electrode layer. A plurality of layers of piezoelectric films, each of which is formed by laminating a first protective layer, a first electrode layer, a piezoelectric layer, a second electrode layer, and a second protective layer in this order, are laminated. Each of the piezoelectric layers is polarized in a thickness direction. In each of the piezoelectric films, the first electrode is disposed on an upstream side in a polarization direction of the piezoelectric layer, and the second electrode is disposed on a downstream side. Each of the plurality of piezoelectric films has a cemented portion which is cemented to an adjacent piezoelectric film and a protruding portion which is not cemented to the adjacent piezoelectric film and in which at least the first electrode layer and the first protective layer or the second electrode layer and the second protective layer protrude from the cemented portion toward the outside in a plane direction. At the protruding portion of each of the piezoelectric films, at least one of a first contact, to which the first electrode layers of the piezoelectric films are electrically connected to each other, or a second contact, to which the second electrode layers of the piezoelectric films are electrically connected to each other, is formed.

    Vibration element, electronic apparatus, and vehicle

    公开(公告)号:US11538981B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-12-27

    申请号:US16911437

    申请日:2020-06-25

    摘要: A vibration element includes: a base; a first arm continuous with the base; a second arm that is continuous with the base and is adjacent to the first arm; a first electrode disposed on the first arm, the second arm, and the base; a first piezoelectric layer that has a first polarity and that is disposed on the first electrode on the first arm; a second piezoelectric layer that has a second polarity different from the first polarity and that is disposed on the first electrode on the second arm; an insulating layer disposed on the first electrode on the base; and a second electrode disposed on the first piezoelectric layer, the second piezoelectric layer, and the insulating layer.

    PIEZOELECTRIC DEVICE
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    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20220384707A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-12-01

    申请号:US17883739

    申请日:2022-08-09

    IPC分类号: H01L41/083 H01L41/047

    摘要: In a piezoelectric device, when viewed in a direction perpendicular to one main surface, an outer shape of a recess is a polygonal shape or a circular shape. When n represents a number of sides of the polygonal shape, r represents a radius of a circumscribed circle of an imaginary regular polygon including n sides with a length identical to a length of a shortest of the sides, and d represents a maximum thickness of a membrane portion, which is located above the recess, of a multilayer portion, r≤197.7dn−0.6698 when 3≤n≤7, and r≤52.69d when 8≤n or when the outer shape of the recess is a circular shape.

    Piezoelectric component, sensor, and actuator

    公开(公告)号:US11508901B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-11-22

    申请号:US16785902

    申请日:2020-02-10

    发明人: Hirozumi Ogawa

    摘要: A piezoelectric component that has a piezoelectric element including a piezoelectric ceramic layer and a sintered metal layer on at least a first main surface of the piezoelectric ceramic layer and containing a non-precious metal, and a protective layer containing an elastic body covering first and second opposed main surfaces of the piezoelectric element. The piezoelectric ceramic layer contains 90 mol % or more of a perovskite compound that contains niobium, an alkali metal, and oxygen. A thickness of the piezoelectric element is 100 μm or less.