FUSED QUARTZ DUAL SHELL RESONATOR AND METHOD OF FABRICATION

    公开(公告)号:US20240125599A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-04-18

    申请号:US18347875

    申请日:2023-07-06

    摘要: A dual-shell architecture and methods of fabrication of fused quartz resonators is disclosed. The architecture may include two encapsulated and concentric cavities using plasma-activated wafer bonding followed by the high-temperature glassblowing. The dual-shell architecture can provide a protective shield as well as a “fixed-fixed” anchor for the sensing element of the resonators. Structures can be instrumented to operate as a resonator, a gyroscope, or other vibratory sensor and for precision operation in a harsh environment. Methods for fabricating a dual-shell resonator structure can include pre-etching cavities on a cap wafer, pre-etching cavities on a device wafer, bonding the device wafer to a substrate wafer to form a substrate pair and aligning and bonding the cap wafer to the substrate pair to form a wafer stack with aligned cavities including a cap cavity and a device cavity. The wafer stack may be glassblown to form a dual-shell structure.

    Resonator and resonance device
    4.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US11824517B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-11-21

    申请号:US17954892

    申请日:2022-09-28

    IPC分类号: H03H9/10 H03H9/05 H03H9/24

    摘要: A resonator may include a vibrating portion that includes a plurality of vibrating arms to numbering in three or more, each having a fixed end, and including at least two vibrating arms to bend out of plane with different phases and a base portion having a fore end portion to which the fixed end of each of the plurality of vibrating arms to is connected and a rear end portion opposed to the fore end portion; a holding portion configured to hold the vibrating portion; and a support arm having one end connected to the holding portion and the other end connected to the rear end portion of the base portion. The support arm is asymmetric with respect to a center line of the vibrating portion with respect to a longitudinal direction in plan view.

    RESONATOR AND RESONANCE DEVICE
    8.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20180191330A1

    公开(公告)日:2018-07-05

    申请号:US15904975

    申请日:2018-02-26

    摘要: A resonator that includes a piezoelectric vibrator, a frame, and a first node generator between the piezoelectric vibrator and the frame. Moreover, a first connecting arm connects the first node generator to the piezoelectric vibrator that opposes the first, and a first holding arm connects the first node generator to a part of the frame that opposes the first node generator. The first node generator includes a width extending in a second direction, which is orthogonal to a first direction of the first connecting arm, that is a maximum width where the first node generator is closer to the first connecting arm than a center of the first node generator relative to the first direction. Moreover, the width of the first node generator gradually decreases from the maximum width as the first node generator extends towards the first holding arm.

    RESONATOR AND RESONATION DEVICE
    9.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20180175824A1

    公开(公告)日:2018-06-21

    申请号:US15898300

    申请日:2018-02-16

    发明人: WAKANA HIROTA

    IPC分类号: H03H9/05 H03H9/10 H03H9/215

    摘要: A resonator includes a vibration portion with a base and a plurality of vibration arms each having a fixed end and a free end with the fixed end being connected to the base. Each of the plurality of vibration arms includes a piezoelectric thin film and an electrode stacked on the piezoelectric thin film. Moreover, a width of each of the plurality of vibration arms increases from the fixed end toward the free end. In addition, a width of the electrode of each of the plurality of vibration arms increases from the fixed end towards the free end of the vibration arm.