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公开(公告)号:US10181555B2
公开(公告)日:2019-01-15
申请号:US15896439
申请日:2018-02-14
Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
Inventor: Kazuya Kitada , Koji Sumi , Tomohiro Sakai , Toshiaki Takahashi
IPC: B41J2/14 , H01L41/187 , H01L41/09 , H01L41/08
Abstract: A piezoelectric element includes a first electrode, a second electrode, and a thin piezoelectric layer. The thin piezoelectric layer is provided between the first electrode and the first electrode, and is formed of a perovskite type compound oxide which contains potassium, sodium, and niobium. In the piezoelectric layer, in an X-ray diffraction pattern obtained by θ−2θ measurement, peaks derived from a (002) plane and a (200) plane are provided in a range in which 2θ is from 45° to 47°, a peak position of the peak on a high angle side among the peaks satisfies 46.0°≤2θ≤46.5°, and a difference of 2θ between the peak on the high angle side and the peak on a low angle side is greater than 0.60°.
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公开(公告)号:US11485137B2
公开(公告)日:2022-11-01
申请号:US17104117
申请日:2020-11-25
Applicant: Seiko Epson Corporation
Inventor: Toshihiro Shimizu , Koji Sumi
Abstract: A piezoelectric device including a flow path forming substrate in which pressure chambers are formed, a diaphragm, and piezoelectric actuators. Active portions, each having a piezoelectric layer interposed between a first electrode and a second electrode, are each, in plan view, provided from an edge portion opposing the pressure chamber to a portion outside the pressure chamber, and a ratio of a film thickness of the piezoelectric layer to a film thickness of the diaphragm is 4.7 or less.
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公开(公告)号:US11135844B2
公开(公告)日:2021-10-05
申请号:US16851198
申请日:2020-04-17
Applicant: Seiko Epson Corporation
Inventor: Motoki Takabe , Yasuhiro Itayama , Koji Sumi
IPC: B41J2/14
Abstract: Provided is a liquid discharge head that includes a nozzle plate provided with a nozzle hole that discharges a liquid, a silicon substrate provided with a pressure generating chamber that communicates with the nozzle hole, a vibration plate provided on the silicon substrate, and a piezoelectric element that is provided on the vibration plate and changes a volume of the pressure generating chamber. The piezoelectric element includes a piezoelectric layer including a composite oxide of a perovskite structure containing lead, zirconium, and titanium. A difference between a peak position derived from a (100) surface of the piezoelectric layer and a peak position derived from a (220) surface of the silicon substrate in an X-ray diffraction of the piezoelectric layer is less than 25.00°.
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公开(公告)号:US10608165B2
公开(公告)日:2020-03-31
申请号:US16223392
申请日:2018-12-18
Applicant: Seiko Epson Corporation
Inventor: Tomohiro Sakai , Koichi Morozumi , Kazuya Kitada , Harunobu Koike , Koji Sumi
IPC: H01L41/187 , B41J2/14 , H01L41/09 , H01L41/318 , H01L41/08
Abstract: Provided is a piezoelectric element including a first electrode provided above a substrate, a piezoelectric layer provided above the first electrode, containing potassium, sodium, and niobium, and having a perovskite structure, and a second electrode provided above the piezoelectric layer. In a case where the piezoelectric layer is divided into two portions at a center thereof in a thickness direction, the piezoelectric layer includes a first portion on the first electrode side and a second portion on the second electrode side. The piezoelectric layer includes line defects. A density of the line defects in the second portion is higher than a density of the line defects in the first portion.
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公开(公告)号:US10297742B2
公开(公告)日:2019-05-21
申请号:US15804191
申请日:2017-11-06
Applicant: Seiko Epson Corporation
Inventor: Koji Sumi , Tomohiro Sakai , Tetsuya Isshiki , Toshiaki Takahashi , Kazuya Kitada
IPC: H01L41/08 , H01L41/04 , H01L41/047 , H01L41/29 , B41J2/14 , H01L41/319 , H01L41/332 , H01L41/317 , B41J2/16 , H01L41/187 , H01L41/318
Abstract: A piezoelectric element includes a first and a second electrode, a piezoelectric layer between the first electrode and the second electrode, and an orientation control layer between the first electrode and the piezoelectric layer. The orientation control layer contains perovskite complex oxide containing potassium, sodium, calcium, and niobium and preferentially oriented in the (100) plane.
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公开(公告)号:US10186652B2
公开(公告)日:2019-01-22
申请号:US15139884
申请日:2016-04-27
Applicant: Seiko Epson Corporation
Inventor: Tomohiro Sakai , Koji Sumi , Tetsuya Isshiki , Toshiaki Takahashi , Tomokazu Kobayashi , Kazuya Kitada
IPC: H01L41/04 , H01L41/08 , H01L41/187 , H01L41/318 , B41J2/14 , H01L41/18
Abstract: There is provided a piezoelectric element which includes a first electrode, a piezoelectric layer which is formed on the first electrode by using a solution method, and is formed from a compound oxide having a perovskite structure in which potassium, sodium, and niobium are provided, and a second electrode which is provided on the piezoelectric layer. A cross-sectional SEM image of the piezoelectric layer is captured at a magnification of 100,000. When evaluation is performed under a condition in which a measured value in a transverse direction is set to 1,273 nm, two or more voids are included in the piezoelectric layer, a difference between the maximum value and the minimum value among diameters of the voids to be largest in a film thickness direction is equal to or smaller than 14 nm, and the maximum value is equal to or smaller than 24 nm.
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公开(公告)号:US11374162B2
公开(公告)日:2022-06-28
申请号:US16031017
申请日:2018-07-10
Applicant: Seiko Epson Corporation
Inventor: Koji Sumi , Tomokazu Kobayashi , Tomohiro Sakai , Kazuya Kitada , Koichi Morozumi , Tsutomu Asakawa
IPC: H01L41/09 , H01L41/29 , H01L41/047 , H01L41/187 , H01L41/317 , B41J2/14
Abstract: A piezoelectric element includes a first electrode; a piezoelectric layer, placed on or above the first electrode, containing potassium, sodium, niobium, titanium, and oxygen; and a second electrode placed on or above the piezoelectric layer.
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公开(公告)号:US10600951B2
公开(公告)日:2020-03-24
申请号:US15358261
申请日:2016-11-22
Applicant: Seiko Epson Corporation
Inventor: Koji Sumi , Eiji Osawa
Abstract: A vibrating plate is provided between a substrate and a piezoelectric element formed of electrodes and a piezoelectric layer and includes a first layer which is formed of a silicon oxide and a second layer which is formed of a ceramic having a Young's modulus larger than that of the silicon oxide. Under the condition in which the following expression (1) has a constant value, where in the expression (1), Ev1, dv1, Ev2, and dv2 represent Young's modulus of the first layer, the thickness thereof, Young's modulus of the second layer, and the thickness thereof, Ev1×dv12+Ev2×dv22 (1) when the combination of dv1 and dv2 which sets the value of the following expression (2) in a range of from the minimum value to +2% thereof is represented by (Dv1, Dv2), Ev1×dv13+Ev2×dv23 (2) the thickness of the first layer and the thickness of the second layer are represented by Dv1 and Dv2.
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公开(公告)号:US10580958B2
公开(公告)日:2020-03-03
申请号:US16217123
申请日:2018-12-12
Applicant: Seiko Epson Corporation
Inventor: Koji Sumi , Harunobu Koike , Toshiaki Takahashi , Koichi Morozumi
IPC: H01L41/047 , B41J2/14 , H01L41/29 , H01L41/318 , H01L41/187
Abstract: A piezoelectric element includes: a first electrode containing crystal grains; a piezoelectric layer which contains potassium, sodium, and niobium and which is provided above the first electrode; and a second electrode provided above the piezoelectric layer, and the average grain diameter of the crystal grains is less than 550 nm.
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公开(公告)号:US10355196B2
公开(公告)日:2019-07-16
申请号:US15378474
申请日:2016-12-14
Applicant: Seiko Epson Corporation
Inventor: Tomohiro Sakai , Kazuya Kitada , Koji Sumi
IPC: H01L41/27 , B41J2/14 , H01L41/047 , H01L41/083 , H01L41/187 , B41J2/16 , H01L41/08 , H01L41/318
Abstract: A piezoelectric element includes a first electrode, a piezoelectric layer formed of a first piezoelectric film which is formed on the first electrode and which includes potassium, sodium, and niobium and a plurality of second piezoelectric films which are formed on the first piezoelectric film and which include potassium, sodium, and niobium, and a second electrode formed on the piezoelectric layer, in which the piezoelectric layer is a stack of a plurality of piezoelectric films, the first piezoelectric film has a thickness of 30 nm to 70 nm, a concentration of sodium in each of the piezoelectric films is along a gradient in the film thickness direction with the first electrode side being high and the second electrode side being low.
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