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.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method for mechanically separating layers, in particular in a double layer transfer process. The present disclosure relates more in particular to a method for mechanically separating layers, comprising the steps of providing a semiconductor compound comprising a layer of a handle substrate and an active layer with a front main side and a back main side opposite the front main side, wherein the layer of the handle substrate is attached to the front main side of the active layer, then providing a layer of a carrier substrate onto the back main side of the active layer, and then initiating mechanical separation of the layer of the handle substrate, wherein the layer of the handle substrate and the layer of the carrier substrate are provided with a substantially symmetrical mechanical structure.

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.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a heterostructure, in particular, a piezoelectric structure, comprising a cover layer, in particular, a layer of piezoelectric material, the material of the cover layer having a first coefficient of thermal expansion, assembled to a support substrate, the support substrate having a second coefficient of thermal expansion substantially different from the first coefficient of thermal expansion, at an interface wherein the cover layer comprises at least a recess extending from the interface into the cover layer, and its method of fabrication.

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.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method for mechanically separating layers, in particular in a double layer transfer process. The present disclosure relates more in particular to a method for mechanically separating layers, comprising the steps of providing a semiconductor compound comprising a layer of a handle substrate and an active layer with a front main side and a back main side opposite the front main side, wherein the layer of the handle substrate is attached to the front main side of the active layer, then providing a layer of a carrier substrate onto the back main side of the active layer, and then initiating mechanical separation of the layer of the handle substrate, wherein the layer of the handle substrate and the layer of the carrier substrate are provided with a substantially symmetrical mechanical structure.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a heterostructure, in particular, a piezoelectric structure, comprising a cover layer, in particular, a layer of piezoelectric material, the material of the cover layer having a first coefficient of thermal expansion, assembled to a support substrate, the support substrate having a second coefficient of thermal expansion substantially different from the first coefficient of thermal expansion, at an interface wherein the cover layer comprises at least a recess extending from the interface into the cover layer, and its method of fabrication.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a structure comprising a first substrate comprising at least one electronic component likely to be damaged by a temperature higher than 400° C. and a semiconductor layer extending on the first comprises: (a) providing a first bonding metal layer on the first substrate, (b) providing a second substrate comprising successively: a semiconductor base substrate, a stack of a plurality of semiconductor epitaxial layers, a layer of SixGe1-x, with 0?x?1 being located at the surface of said stack opposite to the base substrate, and a second bonding metal layer, (c) bonding the first substrate and the second substrate through the first and second bonding metal layers at a temperature lower than or equal to 400° C., and (d) removing a part of the second substrate so as to transfer the layer of SixGe1-x on the first substrate using a selective etching process.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a heterostructure, in particular, a piezoelectric structure, comprising a cover layer, in particular, a layer of piezoelectric material, the material of the cover layer having a first coefficient of thermal expansion, assembled to a support substrate, the support substrate having a second coefficient of thermal expansion substantially different from the first coefficient of thermal expansion, at an interface wherein the cover layer comprises at least a recess extending from the interface into the cover layer, and its method of fabrication.

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.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to a process for locating devices, the process comprising the following steps: a) providing a carrier substrate comprising: a device layer; and alignment marks; b) providing a donor substrate; c) forming a weak zone in the donor substrate, the weak zone delimiting a useful layer; d) assembling the donor substrate and the carrier substrate; and e) fracturing the donor substrate in the weak zone so as to transfer the useful layer to the device layer; wherein the alignment marks are placed in cavities formed in the device layer, the cavities having an aperture flush with the free surface of the device layer.

Abstract: Various embodiments relate to a method and apparatus for discovering a group of interdependent computing objects within an undirected graph structure of objects in a computing environment, the method comprising the steps of performing object identification, performing relations identification, selecting objects by performing the steps comprising defining required properties, matching the required properties with the properties for each of the objects, dropping the objects which have at least one of the properties which do not match with the required properties, making a selection by performing object intersection on the objects by performing the steps of reading location and the relations for each of the objects, selecting a group including each of the objects in the sets of objects which are identical based on the relations for each of the objects, determining whether each of the objects in the group are related to each of the objects in each of the sets of objects, and determining whether at least one of th

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.

Abstract: Various embodiments relate to a method and apparatus for discovering a group of interdependent computing objects within an undirected graph structure of objects in a computing environment, the method comprising the steps of performing object identification, performing relations identification, selecting objects by performing the steps comprising defining required properties, matching the required properties with the properties for each of the objects, dropping the objects which have at least one of the properties which do not match with the required properties, making a selection by performing object intersection on the objects by performing the steps of reading location and the relations for each of the objects, selecting a group including each of the objects in the sets of objects which are identical based on the relations for each of the objects, determining whether each of the objects in the group are related to each of the objects in each of the sets of objects, and determining whether at least one of th

Abstract: A filling pipe arrangement for filling an automobile fluid tank with fluid, especially aqueous urea solution, with a passage passing through a predetermined passageway along the filling pipe arrangement, wherein the passage extends from an inserting mouth to a discharge opening, wherein an inserting end section of the passage comprising the inserting mouth is designed to hold at least temporarily an output end section of a delivery device, such as a spigot, a Kruse bottle, or the like, wherein the passage comprises, at a distance from the inserting mouth, a conducting section designed to lead fluid introduced into the filling pipe arrangement through the filling pipe arrangement, wherein the filling pipe arrangement comprises a magnetic arrangement whose magnetic field reaches into the passage in one section of the passageway, the magnetic arrangement is received in the filling pipe arrangement so that it is movable along the passageway.

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.

Abstract: Methods of forming a semiconductor structure include forming a device layer on an initial substrate, attaching a first surface of the device layer to a temporary substrate and forming a high resistivity layer on a second surface of the device layer by removing a portion of the initial substrate. Methods further include attaching a final substrate to the high resistivity layer and removing the temporary substrate. Semiconductor structures are fabricated by such methods that include a final substrate, a high resistivity layer disposed over the final substrate and a device layer disposed over the high resistivity layer.

Abstract: A method of fabricating a monocrystalline piezoelectric layer, wherein the method comprises: supplying a donor substrate of the piezoelectric material, supplying a receiving substrate, transferring a layer called a “seed layer” from the donor substrate onto the receiving substrate, and implementing an epitaxy of the piezoelectric material on the seed layer until a required thickness for the monocrystalline piezoelectric layer is obtained.

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.

Abstract: A composite structure for an acoustic wave device comprising a heterostructure includes: a useful layer of piezoelectric material, having a first face and a second face, the first face being arranged at a first bonding interface on a support substrate having a coefficient of thermal expansion less than that of the useful layer, wherein the composite structure further comprises a functional layer, an entire surface of which is arranged at a second bonding interface on the second face of the useful layer and having a coefficient of thermal expansion less than that of the useful layer. Methods are used for producing such a composite structure.