Patents by Inventor Eric Desbonnets

Eric Desbonnets has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 11923239
    Abstract: Substrates for microelectronic radiofrequency devices may include a substrate comprising a semiconductor material. Trenches may be located in an upper surface of the substrate, at least some of the trenches including a filler material located within the respective trench. A resistivity of the filler material may be 10 kOhms·cm or greater. A piezoelectric material may be located on or above the upper surface of the substrate. Methods of making substrates for microelectronic radiofrequency devices may involve forming trenches in an upper surface of a substrate including a semiconductor material. A filler material may be placed in at least some of the trenches, and a piezoelectric material may be placed on or above the upper surface of the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Soitec
    Inventors: Eric Desbonnets, Ionut Radu, Oleg Kononchuk, Jean-Pierre Raskin
  • Publication number: 20230378931
    Abstract: A substrate for a surface acoustic wave device or bulk acoustic wave device, comprising a support substrate and an piezoelectric layer on the support substrate, wherein the support substrate comprises a semiconductor layer on a stiffening substrate having a coefficient of thermal expansion that is closer to the coefficient of thermal expansion of the material of the piezoelectric layer than that of silicon, the semiconductor layer being arranged between the piezoelectric layer and the stiffening substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2023
    Publication date: November 23, 2023
    Inventors: Marcel Broekaart, Thierry Barge, Pascal Guenard, Ionut Radu, Eric Desbonnets, Oleg Kononchuk
  • Patent number: 11711065
    Abstract: A substrate for a surface acoustic wave device or bulk acoustic wave device, comprising a support substrate and an piezoelectric layer on the support substrate, wherein the support substrate comprises a semiconductor layer on a stiffening substrate having a coefficient of thermal expansion that is closer to the coefficient of thermal expansion of the material of the piezoelectric layer than that of silicon, the semiconductor layer being arranged between the piezoelectric layer and the stiffening substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: Soitec
    Inventors: Marcel Broekaart, Thierry Barge, Pascal Guenard, Ionut Radu, Eric Desbonnets, Oleg Kononchuk
  • Publication number: 20220368036
    Abstract: A structure for radiofrequency applications includes a high-resistivity support substrate having a front face defining a main plane, a charge-trapping layer disposed on the front face of the support substrate, a first dielectric layer disposed on the charge-trapping layer, an active layer disposed on the first dielectric layer, at least one buried electrode disposed above or in the charge-trapping layer. The buried electrode comprises a conductive layer and a second dielectric layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2022
    Publication date: November 17, 2022
    Inventors: Eric Desbonnets, Bernard Aspar
  • Patent number: 11502428
    Abstract: A structure for radiofrequency applications includes a high-resistivity support substrate having a front face defining a main plane, a charge-trapping layer disposed on the front face of the support substrate, a first dielectric layer disposed on the charge-trapping layer, an active layer disposed on the first dielectric layer, at least one buried electrode disposed above or in the charge-trapping layer. The buried electrode comprises a conductive layer and a second dielectric layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: Soitec
    Inventors: Eric Desbonnets, Bernard Aspar
  • Publication number: 20220277988
    Abstract: Substrates for microelectronic radiofrequency devices may include a substrate comprising a semiconductor material. Trenches may be located in an upper surface of the substrate, at least some of the trenches including a filler material located within the respective trench. A resistivity of the filler material may be 10 kOhms·cm or greater. A piezoelectric material may be located on or above the upper surface of the substrate. Methods of making substrates for microelectronic radiofrequency devices may involve forming trenches in an upper surface of a substrate including a semiconductor material. A filler material may be placed in at least some of the trenches, and a piezoelectric material may be placed on or above the upper surface of the substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2022
    Publication date: September 1, 2022
    Inventors: Eric Desbonnets, Ionut Radu, Oleg Kononchuk, Jean-Pierre Raskin
  • Patent number: 11367650
    Abstract: Substrates for microelectronic radiofrequency devices may include a substrate comprising a semiconductor material. Trenches may be located in an upper surface of the substrate, at least some of the trenches including a filler material located within the respective trench. A resistivity of the filler material may be 10 kOhms·cm or greater. A piezoelectric material may be located on or above the upper surface of the substrate. Methods of making substrates for microelectronic radiofrequency devices may involve forming trenches in an upper surface of a substrate including a semiconductor material. A filler material may be placed in at least some of the trenches, and a piezoelectric material may be placed on or above the upper surface of the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: Soitec
    Inventors: Eric Desbonnets, Ionut Radu, Oleg Kononchuk, Jean-Pierre Raskin
  • Publication number: 20220158080
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a hybrid structure for a surface-acoustic-wave device comprising a useful layer of piezoelectric material joined to a carrier substrate having a thermal expansion coefficient lower than that of the useful layer; the hybrid structure comprising an intermediate layer located between the useful layer and the carrier substrate, the intermediate layer being a structured layer formed from at least two different materials comprising a plurality of periodic motifs in the plane of the intermediate layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2022
    Publication date: May 19, 2022
    Inventors: Oleg Kononchuk, Eric Butaud, Eric Desbonnets
  • Patent number: 11335847
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a hybrid structure for a surface-acoustic-wave device comprising a useful layer of piezoelectric material joined to a carrier substrate having a thermal expansion coefficient lower than that of the useful layer; the hybrid structure comprising an intermediate layer located between the useful layer and the carrier substrate, the intermediate layer being a structured layer formed from at least two different materials comprising a plurality of periodic motifs in the plane of the intermediate layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: Soitec
    Inventors: Oleg Kononchuk, Eric Butaud, Eric Desbonnets
  • Publication number: 20220076993
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a multilayer semiconductor-on-insulator structure, comprising, successively from a rear face toward a front face of the structure: a semiconductor carrier substrate with high electrical resistivity, whose electrical resistivity is between 500 ?·cm and 30 k?·cm, a first electrically insulating layer, an intermediate layer, a second electrically insulating layer, which has a thickness less than that of the first electrically insulating layer, an active semiconductor layer, the multilayer structure comprises: at least one FD-SOI region, in which the intermediate layer is an intermediate first semiconductor layer, at least one RF-SOI region, adjacent to the FD-SOI region, in which the intermediate layer is a third electrically insulating layer, the RF-SOI region comprising at least one radiofrequency component plumb with the third electrically insulating layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2019
    Publication date: March 10, 2022
    Inventors: Yvan Morandini, Walter Schwarzenbach, Frédéric Allibert, Eric Desbonnets, Bich-Yen Nguyen
  • Publication number: 20220076992
    Abstract: A semiconductor-on-insulator multilayer structure, comprises: —a stack, called the back stack, of the following layers from a back side to a front side of the structure: a semiconductor carrier substrate the electrical resistivity of which is between 500 ?·cm and 30 k?·cm, a first electrically insulating layer, a first semiconductor layer, —at least one trench isolation that extends through the back stack at least down to the first electrically insulating layer), and that electrically isolates two adjacent regions of the multilayer structure, the multilayer structure being characterized in that it further comprises at least one FD-SOI first region, and at least one RF-SOI second region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2019
    Publication date: March 10, 2022
    Applicant: Soitec
    Inventors: Yvan Morandini, Walter Schwarzenbach, Frédéric Allibert, Eric Desbonnets, Bich-Yen Nguyen
  • Publication number: 20210280990
    Abstract: A structure for radiofrequency applications includes a high-resistivity support substrate having a front face defining a main plane, a charge-trapping layer disposed on the front face of the support substrate, a first dielectric layer disposed on the charge-trapping layer, an active layer disposed on the first dielectric layer, at least one buried electrode disposed above or in the charge-trapping layer. The buried electrode comprises a conductive layer and a second dielectric layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2021
    Publication date: September 9, 2021
    Inventors: Eric Desbonnets, Bernard Aspar
  • Patent number: 11043756
    Abstract: A structure for radiofrequency applications includes a high-resistivity support substrate having a front face defining a main plane, a charge-trapping layer disposed on the front face of the support substrate, a first dielectric layer disposed on the charge-trapping layer, an active layer disposed on the first dielectric layer, at least one buried electrode disposed above or in the charge-trapping layer. The buried electrode comprises a conductive layer and a second dielectric layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: Soitec
    Inventors: Eric Desbonnets, Bernard Aspar
  • Publication number: 20210143053
    Abstract: Substrates for microelectronic radiofrequency devices may include a substrate comprising a semiconductor material. Trenches may be located in an upper surface of the substrate, at least some of the trenches including a filler material located within the respective trench. A resistivity of the filler material may be 10 kOhms·cm or greater. A piezoelectric material may be located on or above the upper surface of the substrate. Methods of making substrates for microelectronic radiofrequency devices may involve forming trenches in an upper surface of a substrate including a semiconductor material. A filler material may be placed in at least some of the trenches, and a piezoelectric material may be placed on or above the upper surface of the substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2020
    Publication date: May 13, 2021
    Inventors: Eric Desbonnets, Ionut Radu, Oleg Kononchuk, Jean-Pierre Raskin
  • Publication number: 20210121103
    Abstract: A substrate for a surface acoustic wave device or bulk acoustic wave device, comprising a support substrate and an piezoelectric layer on the support substrate, wherein the support substrate comprises a semiconductor layer on a stiffening substrate having a coefficient of thermal expansion that is closer to the coefficient of thermal expansion of the material of the piezoelectric layer than that of silicon, the semiconductor layer being arranged between the piezoelectric layer and the stiffening substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 4, 2021
    Publication date: April 29, 2021
    Inventors: Marcel Broekaart, Thierry Barge, Pascal Guenard, Ionut Radu, Eric Desbonnets, Oleg Kononchuk
  • Patent number: 10943815
    Abstract: A substrate for microelectronic radiofrequency devices includes a carrier substrate made of a first semiconductor material having a resistivity higher than 500 ohms-cm; a plurality of trenches in the carrier substrate, which trenches are filled with a second material, and defining on a first side of the carrier substrate a plurality of first zones made of a first material and at least one second zone made of a second material. The second material has a resistivity higher than 10 kohms-cm, and the first zones have a maximum dimension smaller than 10 microns and are insulated from one another by the second zone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: Soitec
    Inventors: Eric Desbonnets, Ionut Radu, Oleg Kononchuk, Jean-Pierre Raskin
  • Patent number: 10924081
    Abstract: A substrate for a surface acoustic wave device or bulk acoustic wave device, comprising a support substrate and an piezoelectric layer on the support substrate, wherein the support substrate comprises a semiconductor layer on a stiffening substrate having a coefficient of thermal expansion that is closer to the coefficient of thermal expansion of the material of the piezoelectric layer than that of silicon, the semiconductor layer being arranged between the piezoelectric layer and the stiffening substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: Soitec
    Inventors: Marcel Broekaart, Thierry Barge, Pascal Guenard, Ionut Radu, Eric Desbonnets, Oleg Kononchuk
  • Patent number: 10819282
    Abstract: A method for minimizing harmonic distortion and/or intermodulation distortion of a radiofrequency signal propagating in a radiofrequency circuit formed on a semiconductor substrate coated with an electrically insulating layer, wherein a curve representing the distortion as a function of a power of the input or output signal exhibits a trough around a given power (PDip), the method comprises applying, between the radiofrequency circuit and the semiconductor substrate, an electrical potential difference (VGB) chosen so as to move the trough toward a given operating power of the radiofrequency circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: Soitec
    Inventors: Marcel Broekaart, Frederic Allibert, Eric Desbonnets, Jean-Pierre Raskin, Martin Rack
  • Publication number: 20200228088
    Abstract: A substrate for a surface acoustic wave device or bulk acoustic wave device, comprising a support substrate and an piezoelectric layer on the support substrate, wherein the support substrate comprises a semiconductor layer on a stiffening substrate having a coefficient of thermal expansion that is closer to the coefficient of thermal expansion of the material of the piezoelectric layer than that of silicon, the semiconductor layer being arranged between the piezoelectric layer and the stiffening substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2020
    Publication date: July 16, 2020
    Inventors: Marcel Broekaart, Thierry Barge, Pascal Guenard, Ionut Radu, Eric Desbonnets, Oleg Kononchuk
  • Patent number: RE49365
    Abstract: A structure for radiofrequency applications includes: a support substrate of high-resistivity silicon comprising a lower part and an upper part having undergone a p-type doping to a depth D; a mesoporous trapping layer of silicon formed in the doped upper part of the support substrate. The depth D is less than 1 micron and the trapping layer has a porosity rate of between 20% and 60%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: Soitec
    Inventors: Oleg Kononchuk, William Van Den Daele, Eric Desbonnets