Patents by Inventor Shoji Akiyama

Shoji Akiyama 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: 12136907
    Abstract: A piezoelectric composite substrate for SAW devices with small loss is provided. A composite substrate for a surface acoustic wave device according to one embodiment of the present invention has a piezoelectric single crystal thin film, a support substrate, and a first intervening layer between the piezoelectric single crystal thin film and the support substrate. In said composite substrate, the first intervening layer is in contact with the piezoelectric single crystal thin film, and the acoustic velocity of the transverse wave in the first intervening layer is faster than the acoustic velocity of the fast transverse wave in the piezoelectric single crystal thin film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Assignee: Shin-Etsu Chemical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masayuki Tanno, Shoji Akiyama
  • Publication number: 20240339747
    Abstract: An antenna module includes: a substrate with at least the top surface being a single crystal of silicon carbide; a single-crystal graphene layer provided in contact with the top surface of the substrate; and a gallium nitride layer on the substrate. The antenna module is characterized in that an antenna element portion is formed by patterning a region in the graphene layer that is not covered by the gallium nitride layer, an active element portion is formed in the gallium nitride layer, and a connection portion connecting the antenna element portion and the active element portion are integrally formed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2022
    Publication date: October 10, 2024
    Applicants: TOHOKU UNIVERSITY, NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY, SHIN-ETSU CHEMICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hirokazu FUKIDOME, Tetsuya SUEMITSU, Issei WATANABE, Minoru KAWAHARA, Shoji AKIYAMA, Yuji TOBISAKA, Makoto KAWAI
  • Publication number: 20240022229
    Abstract: A composite substrate that is obtained by bonding a silicon (Si) wafer having an interstitial oxygen concentration of 2 to 10 ppma to a piezoelectric material substrate as a support substrate, and thinning the piezoelectric material substrate after the bonding.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2023
    Publication date: January 18, 2024
    Applicant: Shin-Etsu Chemical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shoji AKIYAMA, Shozo SHIRAI, Masayuki TANNO
  • Publication number: 20230422620
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a composite substrate includes: forming a first intermediate layer including thermally synthesized silica on a surface of a support substrate; forming a second intermediate layer including an inorganic material on a surface of a piezoelectric single crystal substrate; flattening a surface of the second intermediate layer; and bonding a surface of the first intermediate layer to the flattened surface of the second intermediate layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2023
    Publication date: December 28, 2023
    Applicant: SHIN-ETSU CHEMICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shoji AKIYAMA, Masayuki TANNO
  • Publication number: 20230391055
    Abstract: Provided are a manufacturing method for a composite wafer and a composite wafer obtained by using the manufacturing method, the manufacturing method including: preparing a first substrate in which a first layer of any one of oxides, oxynitrides, and nitrides is disposed on one surface; preparing a second substrate in which a second layer of any one of oxides, oxynitrides, and nitrides is disposed on one surface; forming a silicon layer on a surface of one of the first layer or the second layer; activating, with plasma, a surface of at least one of the silicon layer or another of the first layer or the second layer; and bonding the first substrate and the second substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2023
    Publication date: December 7, 2023
    Inventor: Shoji AKIYAMA
  • Publication number: 20230396231
    Abstract: To provide a method for producing a composite wafer including preparing a supporting substrate which is either lithium tantalate or lithium niobate and is substantially not polarized, preparing an active substrate which is either lithium tantalate or lithium niobate stuck on one surface side of the supporting substrate and is polarized, generating an interface by implanting an ion into the active substrate, sticking the supporting substrate and the active substrate, raising temperatures of the supporting substrate and the active substrate which are stuck to each other, and delaminating the active substrate at the interface. In addition, the composite wafer is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2023
    Publication date: December 7, 2023
    Inventor: Shoji AKIYAMA
  • Publication number: 20230370043
    Abstract: Manufacturing methods for a composite substrate for surface acoustic wave devices with improved characteristics is provided. The composite substrate for a surface acoustic wave device is configured to include a piezoelectric single crystal substrate and a supporting substrate. An intervening layer is provided between the piezoelectric single crystal substrate and the supporting substrate, the amount of chemisorbed water in the intervening layer is 1×1020 molecules/cm3 or less. At the bonding interface between the piezoelectric single crystal substrate and the supporting substrate, at least one of the piezoelectric single crystal substrate and the supporting substrate may have an uneven structure. It is preferable that the ratio of the average length RSm of the element in the sectional curve of the uneven structure and the wavelength ? of the surface acoustic wave when used as a surface acoustic wave device is 0.2 or more and 7.0 or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2023
    Publication date: November 16, 2023
    Applicant: SHIN-ETSU CHEMICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masayuki TANNO, Shoji AKIYAMA
  • Patent number: 11804818
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a composite substrate that includes bonding a silicon (Si) wafer having an interstitial oxygen concentration of 2 to 10 ppma to a piezoelectric material substrate as a support substrate, and thinning the piezoelectric material substrate after the bonding. The piezoelectric material substrate is particularly preferably a lithium tantalate wafer (LT) substrate or a lithium niobate (LN) substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: SHIN-ETSU CHEMICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shoji Akiyama, Shozo Shirai, Masayuki Tanno
  • Patent number: 11800805
    Abstract: There are provided a method for manufacturing a substrate excellent in heat dissipation with a small loss in radio frequencies with no need of a high temperature process in which a metal impurity is diffused, and a substrate of high thermal conductivity. A composite substrate according to the present invention is a composite substrate having a piezoelectric single crystal substrate, a support substrate, and an intermediate layer provided between the piezoelectric single crystal substrate and the support substrate. The intermediate layer is a film formed of an inorganic material, and at least a part of the film is thermally synthesized silica. The intermediate layer may be separated into at least two layers along the bonding surface of the composite substrate. The first intermediate layer in contact with the support substrate may be a layer including thermally synthesized silica.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: SHIN-ETSU CHEMICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shoji Akiyama, Masayuki Tanno
  • Publication number: 20230207307
    Abstract: Provided are a composite substrate in which a wafer to be bonded has a sufficiently small surface roughness and which can be prevented from causing film peeling, and a method for producing the composite substrate. The composite substrate 40 of the present invention has a silicon wafer 10, an interlayer 11, and a single-crystal silicon thin film or oxide single-crystal thin film 20a stacked in the order listed and has a damaged layer 12a in a portion of the silicon wafer 10 on the side of the interlayer 11.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2021
    Publication date: June 29, 2023
    Inventor: Shoji AKIYAMA
  • Publication number: 20230175170
    Abstract: A composite substrate is resistant to the development of cracks, thereby not having deteriorating properties even when exposed to high-temperatures or low temperatures, and a method is provided for producing the composite substrate. The composite substrate 10 of the present invention has a supporting substrate 2, a stress relaxing interlayer 3, and an oxide single-crystal thin film 1 stacked in the listed order. The stress relaxing interlayer 3 has a thermal expansion coefficient between that of the supporting substrate 2 and that of the oxide single-crystal thin film 1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2021
    Publication date: June 8, 2023
    Inventors: Shoji AKIYAMA, Masayuki TANNO, Shozo SHIRAI
  • Patent number: 11606073
    Abstract: Provided is a composite substrate for surface acoustic wave device which does not cause peeling of an entire surface of a piezoelectric single crystal film even when heating the film to 400° C. or higher in a step after bonding. The composite substrate is formed by providing a piezoelectric single crystal substrate and a support substrate, forming a film made of an inorganic material on at least one of the piezoelectric single crystal substrate and the support substrate, and joining the piezoelectric single crystal substrate with the support substrate so as to sandwich the film made of the inorganic material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: SHIN-ETSU CHEMICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shoji Akiyama, Masayuki Tanno, Shozo Shirai
  • Publication number: 20230063086
    Abstract: There is provided a microchip. The microchip comprises a substrate including a flow channel configured to convey a fluid therein. The substrate comprises a first substrate layer, a second substrate layer laminated to the first substrate layer to create the flow channel, and a discharge part formed in only one of the first substrate layer or the second substrate layer. The discharge part includes an opening directed toward an end face of the substrate, and being configured to eject the fluid flowing through the flow channel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2022
    Publication date: March 2, 2023
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroto Kasai, Shoji Akiyama, Kazuya Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20230053303
    Abstract: A manufacturing method of a composite substrate capable of suppressing damage due to heat treatment after bonding, and a composite substrate manufactured by the method are provided. The manufacturing method of a composite substrate according to the present invention is a manufacturing method of a composite substrate in which a piezoelectric wafer, which is a lithium tantalate wafer or lithium niobate wafer, and a support wafer are bonded together. This manufacturing method is characterized by a step of bonding a piezoelectric wafer and a support wafer, and a step of performing heat treatment of the wafer bonded in the step of bonding, with the non-bonded surface of the piezoelectric wafer being a mirror surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2020
    Publication date: February 16, 2023
    Applicant: SHIN-ETSU CHEMICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Shoji AKIYAMA
  • Patent number: 11346018
    Abstract: A silicon carbide substrate production method includes: the step of providing covering layers 1b, 1b, each containing silicon oxide, silicon nitride, silicon carbonitride, or silicide, respectively on both surfaces of a base material substrate 1a carbon, silicon or silicon carbide, and turning the surface of each of the covering layers 1b, 1b into a smooth surface to prepare a support substrate 1; a step of forming a polycrystalline silicon carbide film 10 on both surfaces of the support substrate 1 by a gas phase growth method or a liquid phase growth method; and a step of separating the polycrystalline silicon carbide films from the support substrate while preserving, on the surface thereof, the smoothness of the covering layer surfaces 1b, 1b by chemically removing at least the covering layers 1b, 1b, from the support substrate 1. The silicon carbide substrate has a smooth surface and reduced internal stress.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignees: Shin-Etsu Chemical Co., Ltd., CUSIC Inc.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Nagasawa, Yoshihiro Kubota, Shoji Akiyama
  • Patent number: 11338259
    Abstract: The present technology provides a technology that liquid in round-bottom vessels is efficiently agitated. There is provided a vessel rack at least including a holder having a plurality of through-holes into which round-bottom vessels each having a closed-bottom tube shape are inserted, and a support having a plurality of supporting holes that are arranged facing to the through-holes and support bottoms of the round-bottom vessels, the bottoms of the supporting holes each having a bulge such that liquid in the round-bottom vessels forms a vortex at a time of agitation of the liquid. Also, there is provided an agitator of agitating liquid in round-bottom vessels at least including the vessel rack, a mounting unit that mounts the vessel rack, and a rocking unit that rocks the mounting unit, and the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shoji Akiyama, Takeshi Yamasaki, Shinichi Hasegawa, Makoto Sato
  • Publication number: 20220118444
    Abstract: A microchip is provided, which includes a substrate including a fluid channel structure. The fluid channel structure includes a first fluid introduction channel and a second fluid introduction channel configured to meet so as to allow merging of a first fluid introduced from the first fluid introduction channel and a second fluid introduced from the second fluid introduction channel. A tapered portion is configured to be positioned after merging the first fluid and the second fluid so as to suppress a spiral flow field generated after the merging.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2021
    Publication date: April 21, 2022
    Inventors: Tatsumi ITO, Shoji AKIYAMA, Masaya KAKUTA, Takeshi YAMASAKI
  • Patent number: 11245377
    Abstract: A composite substrate includes a single crystal support substrate containing first element as a main component; an oxide single crystal layer provided on the single crystal support substrate and containing a second element (excluding oxygen) as a main component; and an amorphous layer provided in between the single crystal support substrate and the oxide single crystal layer and containing a first element, a second element, and Ar, the amorphous layer having a first amorphous region in which proportion of the first element is higher than proportion of the second element, and a second amorphous region in which the proportion of the second element is higher than the proportion of the first element, concentration of Ar contained in the first amorphous region being higher than concentration of Ar contained in the second amorphous region and being 3 atom % or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: SHIN-ETSU CHEMICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shoji Akiyama, Masayuki Tanno
  • Patent number: 11229907
    Abstract: A microchip is provided, which includes a substrate including a fluid channel structure. The fluid channel structure includes a first fluid introduction channel and a second fluid introduction channel configured to meet so as to allow merging of a first fluid introduced from the first fluid introduction channel and a second fluid introduced from the second fluid introduction channel. A tapered portion is configured to be positioned after merging the first fluid and the second fluid so as to suppress a spiral flow field generated after the merging.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Tatsumi Ito, Shoji Akiyama, Masaya Kakuta, Takeshi Yamasaki
  • Patent number: D960740
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuji Akiyama, Shoji Akiyama, Gakuji Hashimoto, Hiroto Kasai, Masaya Kakuta, Takeshi Yamasaki, Tatsumi Ito, Masataka Shinoda