Patents by Inventor Mari SAJI

Mari SAJI 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: 11948986
    Abstract: A mesa portion is formed on a substrate. An insulating film including an organic layer is disposed on the mesa portion. A conductor film is disposed on the insulating film. A cavity provided in the organic layer has side surfaces extending in a first direction. A shorter distance out of distances in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction from the mesa portion to the side surfaces of the cavity in plan view is defined as a first distance. A shorter distance out of distances in the first direction from the mesa portion to side surfaces of the cavity in plan view is defined as a second distance. A height of a first step of the mesa portion is defined as a first height. At least one of the first distance and the second distance is greater than or equal to the first height.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Atsushi Kurokawa, Masahiro Shibata, Hiroaki Tokuya, Mari Saji
  • Publication number: 20240088271
    Abstract: A semiconductor device has a semiconductor substrate, at least one first transistor that has a mesa structure including one or more semiconductor layers, a first bump that overlaps the first transistor and extends in a first direction, and a second bump, in which the mesa structure has a first end portion on one end side in a second direction and a second end portion on the other end side in the second direction. The opening has a first opening end portion and a second opening end portion that are adjacent in the second direction. In plan view, the first opening end portion is closer to the second bump than the second opening end portion and the first end portion and the second end portion of the mesa structure are disposed between the first opening end portion and the second opening end portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicant: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Atsushi KUROKAWA, Mari SAJI
  • Publication number: 20240047398
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate; at least one first transistor, each first transistor including a mesa structure including one or more semiconductor layers; a first bump overlapping the first transistors and extending in a first direction; and a second bump. The mesa structure includes a first end portion at one end in a second direction and a second end portion at another end in the second direction. In plan view, an outer periphery of the first bump includes a first side and a second side extending in the first direction and arranged next to each other in the second direction. The first side is closer to the second bump than the second side in the second direction. The first end portion and the second end portion of the mesa structure are between the first side and the second side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2023
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Applicant: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Atsushi KUROKAWA, Mari SAJI
  • Publication number: 20230412144
    Abstract: An elastic wave device includes a piezoelectric substrate mainly including lithium niobate, an interdigital transducer electrode provided on the piezoelectric substrate, and a dielectric film, provided on the piezoelectric substrate and covering the interdigital transducer electrode, and mainly including silicon oxide. The elastic wave device uses a Rayleigh wave. The interdigital transducer electrode includes main electrode layers that include one or more first main electrode layer made of a metal with a C112/C12 ratio greater than the C112/C12 ratio of the silicon oxide with regard to the elastic constants C11 and C12. The sum of the thicknesses of the one or more first main electrode layers is about 55% or more based on the thickness of the whole interdigital transducer electrode is about 100%.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2023
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Inventor: Mari SAJI
  • Patent number: 11817493
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a substrate having an upper surface on which are arranged first transistors each including a mesa structure formed of a semiconductor. A first bump having a shape elongated in one direction in plan view and connected to the first transistors is arranged at a position overlapping the first transistors in plan view. A second bump has a space with respect to the first bump in a direction orthogonal to a longitudinal direction of the first bump. A first metal pattern is arranged between the first and second bumps in plan view. When the upper surface of the substrate is taken as a height reference, a center of the first metal pattern in a thickness direction has a height higher than an upper surface of the mesa structure included in each of the first transistors and lower than a lower surface of the first bump.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Mari Saji, Atsushi Kurokawa, Koshi Himeda
  • Patent number: 11784626
    Abstract: An elastic wave device includes a piezoelectric substrate mainly including lithium niobate, an interdigital transducer electrode provided on the piezoelectric substrate, and a dielectric film, provided on the piezoelectric substrate and covering the interdigital transducer electrode, and mainly including silicon oxide. The elastic wave device uses a Rayleigh wave. The interdigital transducer electrode includes main electrode layers that include one or more first main electrode layer made of a metal with a C112/C12 ratio greater than the C112/C12 ratio of the silicon oxide with regard to the elastic constants C11 and C12. The sum of the thicknesses of the one or more first main electrode layers is about 55% or more based on the thickness of the whole interdigital transducer electrode is about 100%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Mari Saji
  • Patent number: 11652016
    Abstract: A first layer conductor film is connected to an operation electrode through an opening in a first layer interlayer insulating film. An opening in a second layer interlayer insulating film is encompassed by the first layer conductor film in plan view. A second layer conductor film is connected to the first layer conductor film through the opening in a second layer interlayer insulating film. The average, along a first direction, of distances in a second direction, which is perpendicular to the first direction, from the opening in the first layer interlayer insulating film to the side surface of the opening in the second layer interlayer insulating film is greater than or equal to a distance in a height direction from an upper opening plane of the opening in the first layer interlayer insulating film to a lower opening plane of the opening in the second layer interlayer insulating film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Mari Saji, Masahiro Shibata, Atsushi Kurokawa
  • Patent number: 11476830
    Abstract: In an elastic wave device, an IDT electrode is provided on a piezoelectric substrate and a first silicon oxide film covers the IDT electrode. A high-acoustic-velocity dielectric film covers the first silicon oxide film. A second silicon oxide film is provided on the high-acoustic-velocity dielectric film. The piezoelectric substrate is made of lithium niobate. The high-acoustic-velocity dielectric film propagates longitudinal waves at an acoustic velocity higher than an acoustic velocity of longitudinal waves propagating through the first silicon oxide film. The high-acoustic-velocity dielectric film is provided at a distance of about (t1+t2)×0.42 or less from a first main surface of the piezoelectric substrate in a thickness direction of the piezoelectric substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Mari Saji
  • Patent number: 11469737
    Abstract: An elastic wave device includes a high-acoustic-velocity member, a low-acoustic-velocity film, a piezoelectric film, and am interdigital transducer electrode stacked in this order. The interdigital transducer electrode includes an intersecting region and outer edge regions. The intersecting region includes a central region located in the middle of the intersecting region in the direction in which electrode fingers extend and the inner edge regions located at the respective outer side portions of the central region. The electrode fingers in the inner edge regions have a larger thickness than in the central region. Each electrode finger has an incrased thickness portion. The increased thickness portion is made of a metal having a density d of about 5.5 g/cm3 or more and has a film thickenss equal to or smaller than a wavelength-normalized film thickness represented by T (%)=?0.1458d+4.8654.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Mari Saji
  • Patent number: 11367829
    Abstract: An elastic wave device includes a piezoelectric substrate, an IDT electrode including a first electrode layer located on the piezoelectric substrate and including one of Mo and W as a main component and a second electrode layer laminated on the first electrode layer and including Cu as a main component, and a dielectric film located on the piezoelectric substrate and covering the IDT electrode. The piezoelectric substrate is made of lithium niobate. The dielectric film is made of silicon oxide. The elastic wave device utilizes Rayleigh waves propagating along the piezoelectric substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Mari Saji
  • Publication number: 20220181470
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a substrate having an upper surface on which are arranged first transistors each including a mesa structure formed of a semiconductor. A first bump having a shape elongated in one direction in plan view and connected to the first transistors is arranged at a position overlapping the first transistors in plan view. A second bump has a space with respect to the first bump in a direction orthogonal to a longitudinal direction of the first bump. A first metal pattern is arranged between the first and second bumps in plan view. When the upper surface of the substrate is taken as a height reference, a center of the first metal pattern in a thickness direction has a height higher than an upper surface of the mesa structure included in each of the first transistors and lower than a lower surface of the first bump.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2021
    Publication date: June 9, 2022
    Applicant: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Mari SAJI, Atsushi KUROKAWA, Koshi HIMEDA
  • Patent number: 11228300
    Abstract: An elastic wave device includes a piezoelectric layer, an IDT electrode on the piezoelectric layer, a high-acoustic-velocity member, a low-acoustic-velocity film between the high-acoustic-velocity member and the piezoelectric layer. The piezoelectric layer is made of lithium tantalate, the IDT electrode includes metal layers including an Al metal layer and a metal layer having a higher density than Al. Expression 1 is satisfied: 301.74667?10.83029×TLT?3.52155×TELE+0.10788×TLT2+0.01003×TELE2+0.03989×TLT×TELE?0 expression 1, where ? represents a wavelength defined by an electrode finger pitch of the IDT electrode, TLT (%) represents a normalized film thickness of the piezoelectric layer to the wavelength ?, and TELE (%) represents a normalized film thickness of the IDT electrode in terms of Al to the wavelength ?.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Mari Saji, Ryo Nakagawa, Hideki Iwamoto
  • Publication number: 20210391429
    Abstract: A mesa portion is formed on a substrate. An insulating film including an organic layer is disposed on the mesa portion. A conductor film is disposed on the insulating film. A cavity provided in the organic layer has side surfaces extending in a first direction. A shorter distance out of distances in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction from the mesa portion to the side surfaces of the cavity in plan view is defined as a first distance. A shorter distance out of distances in the first direction from the mesa portion to side surfaces of the cavity in plan view is defined as a second distance. A height of a first step of the mesa portion is defined as a first height. At least one of the first distance and the second distance is greater than or equal to the first height.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2021
    Publication date: December 16, 2021
    Applicant: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Atsushi KUROKAWA, Masahiro SHIBATA, Hiroaki TOKUYA, Mari SAJI
  • Publication number: 20210391233
    Abstract: A first layer conductor film is connected to an operation electrode through an opening in a first layer interlayer insulating film. An opening in a second layer interlayer insulating film is encompassed by the first layer conductor film in plan view. A second layer conductor film is connected to the first layer conductor film through the opening in a second layer interlayer insulating film. The average, along a first direction, of distances in a second direction, which is perpendicular to the first direction, from the opening in the first layer interlayer insulating film to the side surface of the opening in the second layer interlayer insulating film is greater than or equal to a distance in a height direction from an upper opening plane of the opening in the first layer interlayer insulating film to a lower opening plane of the opening in the second layer interlayer insulating film.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2021
    Publication date: December 16, 2021
    Applicant: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Mari SAJI, Masahiro SHIBATA, Atsushi KUROKAWA
  • Patent number: 11088673
    Abstract: A composite filter device includes an antenna common terminal, a first band pass filter having a first pass band, and a second band pass filter having a second pass band located at higher frequencies than the first pass band. The first band pass filter includes an elastic wave resonator. The elastic wave resonator includes a LiNbO3 substrate, an IDT electrode on the LiNbO3 substrate, and a dielectric film that covers the IDT electrode and includes a silicon oxide as a main component. When f1? is the frequency of a Sezawa wave of the first band pass filter and f2 is the center frequency of the second pass band, f1? is located at a different position from f2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Mari Saji, Junpei Yasuda
  • Patent number: 10951192
    Abstract: An elastic wave device includes a piezoelectric substrate and an interdigital transducer electrode on the piezoelectric substrate, the piezoelectric substrate including a piezoelectric layer and a high-acoustic-velocity member layer, the piezoelectric layer being stacked on the high-acoustic-velocity member layer. The piezoelectric layer is made of lithium tantalate. Denoting an elastic wave propagation direction as a first direction, and a direction perpendicular or substantially perpendicular to the first direction as a second direction, a central region, low-acoustic-velocity regions, and high-acoustic-velocity regions are provided in the interdigital transducer electrode in the second direction. The low-acoustic-velocity regions include mass-adding films on electrode fingers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Mari Saji, Hideki Iwamoto
  • Patent number: 10819308
    Abstract: An elastic wave device includes a piezoelectric substrate made of lithium niobate, an interdigital transducer electrode on the piezoelectric substrate, and a silicon oxide layer that covers the interdigital transducer electrode. The interdigital transducer electrode includes an AlCu layer and a metal layer disposed closer to the piezoelectric substrate than the AlCu layer, the metal layer having a higher density than the silicon oxide layer. The AlCu layer has a Cu concentration of about 13% or more by weight.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Mari Saji
  • Patent number: 10680578
    Abstract: An elastic wave device includes a piezoelectric substrate and an interdigital transducer (IDT) electrode. The IDT electrode is disposed on the piezoelectric substrate and includes an electrode layer including molybdenum as a main component. The duty ratio of the IDT electrode is about 0.3 to about 0.48.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Mari Saji
  • Patent number: 10601395
    Abstract: An elastic wave device includes a first filter including an elastic wave resonator and a second filter connected to an antenna common terminal via a common node. When a first pass band of the first filter and second pass bands of the second filters are F1 and F2, respectively, F1<F2. The first filter includes at least one elastic wave resonator, and the elastic wave resonator uses Rayleigh waves propagating on a piezoelectric substrate made of LiNbO3, IDT electrodes including a Pt film on a piezoelectric layer made of LiNbO3, and a silicon oxide film covering the IDT electrodes. The thickness of the silicon oxide layer is about 33% or less of the wavelength of the IDT electrodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2020
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Mari Saji, Junpei Yasuda
  • Patent number: 10574211
    Abstract: A composite filter device for use in carrier aggregation includes a first bandpass filter connected to an antenna common terminal and including a first pass band, and a second bandpass filter including a second pass band of a higher frequency than the first pass band. The first bandpass filter includes an LiNbO3 substrate, an IDT electrode which is provided on the LiNbO3 substrate and defines the first bandpass filter, and a dielectric film which covers the IDT electrode and includes silicon oxide as a main component. The first bandpass filter is defined by at least one elastic wave resonator, and a Rayleigh wave propagating in the LiNbO3 substrate is used and an acoustic velocity of a Sezawa wave in the elastic wave resonator is equal to or higher than about 4643.2 m/sec.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Mari Saji