Patents by Inventor Takahiro Yamadera

Takahiro Yamadera 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: 11936363
    Abstract: A bonded body has a supporting substrate composed of silicon, piezoelectric material substrate, and a bonding layer provided on a bonding surface of the supporting substrate and composed of a metal oxide. An amount of aluminum atoms on the bonding surface of the supporting substrate is 1.0×1011 to 1.0×1015 atoms/cm2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: NGK INSULATORS, LTD.
    Inventors: Takahiro Yamadera, Saki Nakayama
  • Publication number: 20240074316
    Abstract: A bonded body includes a supporting substrate, a silicon oxide layer provided on the supporting substrate, and a piezoelectric material substrate provided on the silicon oxide layer and composed of a material selected from the group consisting of lithium niobate, lithium tantalate and lithium niobate-lithium tantalate. The surface resistivity of the piezoelectric material substrate on the side of the silicon oxide layer is 1.7×1015 ?/? or higher.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Inventors: Yuji HORI, Takahiro YAMADERA, Tatsuro TAKAGAKI
  • Patent number: 11871671
    Abstract: A bonded body includes a supporting substrate, a silicon oxide layer provided on the supporting substrate, and a piezoelectric material substrate provided on the silicon oxide layer and composed of a material selected from the group consisting of lithium niobate, lithium tantalate and lithium niobate-lithium tantalate. The surface resistivity of the piezoelectric material substrate on the side of the silicon oxide layer is 1.7×101 5?/? or higher.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: NGK INSULATORS, LTD.
    Inventors: Yuji Hori, Takahiro Yamadera, Tatsuro Takagaki
  • Patent number: 11791796
    Abstract: A bonded body includes a supporting substrate; a piezoelectric material substrate composed of a material selected from the group consisting of lithium niobate, lithium tantalate and lithium niobate-lithium tantalate; and a bonding layer bonding the supporting substrate and piezoelectric material substrate and contacting a main surface of the piezoelectric material substrate. At least one of a bonding surface of the supporting substrate and a bonding surface of the piezoelectric material substrate, as measured by spectral ellipsometry with ? being assigned to a difference of phases of p-polarized light and s-polarized light of a reflected light, has a difference of the maximum and minimum values of the difference ? of the phases in a wavelength range of 400 nm to 760 nm of 70° or lower.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: NGK INSULATORS, LTD.
    Inventors: Takahiro Yamadera, Saki Nakayama, Yuji Hori
  • Patent number: 11791795
    Abstract: A bonded body includes a supporting substrate; a piezoelectric material substrate composed of a material selected from the group consisting of lithium niobate, lithium tantalate and lithium niobate-lithium tantalate; and a bonding layer bonding the supporting substrate and the piezoelectric material substrate and contacting a main surface of the piezoelectric material substrate. It is provided that at least one of a bonding surface of the supporting substrate and a bonding surface of the piezoelectric material substrate is measured by X-ray reflectivity method and that 1 is assigned to a signal intensity in the case of total reflection. A relative intensity I of a reflected light from the bonding surface is approximated by the following formula (1) in a range of 1.0×10?4 or larger and 1.0×10?1 or smaller. I=a(2?)?b??(1) (? represents an incident angle of an X-ray with respect to the bonding surface, a is 1.0×10?5 or larger and 2.0×10?3 or smaller, and b is 5.0 or larger and 9.0 or smaller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: NGK INSULATORS, LTD.
    Inventors: Yuji Hori, Takahiro Yamadera
  • Patent number: 11700771
    Abstract: A bonded body includes a supporting substrate, silicon oxide layer provided on the supporting substrate, and a piezoelectric material substrate provided on the silicon oxide layer and composed of a material selected from the group consisting of lithium niobate, lithium tantalate and lithium niobate-lithium tantalite. A nitrogen concentration at an interface between the piezoelectric material substrate and silicon oxide layer is higher than a nitrogen concentration at an interface between the silicon oxide layer and the supporting substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: NGK INSULATORS, LTD.
    Inventors: Yuji Hori, Takahiro Yamadera, Tatsuro Takagaki
  • Patent number: 11689172
    Abstract: A bonded body includes a supporting substrate, a silicon oxide layer provided on the supporting substrate, and a piezoelectric material substrate provided on the silicon oxide layer and composed of a material selected from the group consisting of lithium niobate, lithium tantalate and lithium niobate-lithium tantalate. An average value of a nitrogen concentration of the silicon oxide layer is higher than a nitrogen concentration at an interface between the silicon oxide layer and supporting substrate and higher than a nitrogen concentration at an interface between the silicon oxide layer and piezoelectric material substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: NGK INSULATORS, LTD.
    Inventors: Yuji Hori, Takahiro Yamadera, Tatsuro Takagaki
  • Patent number: 11658635
    Abstract: A bonded body includes a supporting substrate, a piezoelectric material substrate of a material selected from the group consisting of lithium niobate, lithium tantalate and lithium niobate-lithium tantalate, and a bonding layer bonding the supporting substrate and piezoelectric material substrate. A material of the bonding layer is silicon oxide. Provided that the bonding layer is divided into a piezoelectric material substrate-side bonding part and a supporting substrate-side bonding part, the piezoelectric material substrate-side bonding part has a nitrogen concentration higher than a nitrogen concentration of the supporting substrate-side bonding part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: NGK INSULATORS, LTD.
    Inventors: Yuji Hori, Takahiro Yamadera, Tatsuro Takagaki
  • Publication number: 20220385265
    Abstract: A bonded body has a supporting substrate composed of silicon, piezoelectric material substrate, and a bonding layer provided on a bonding surface of the supporting substrate and composed of a metal oxide. An amount of aluminum atoms on the bonding surface of the supporting substrate is 1.0×1011 to 1.0×1015 atoms/cm2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2022
    Publication date: December 1, 2022
    Applicant: NGK Insulators, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takahiro YAMADERA, Saki NAKAYAMA
  • Patent number: 11456720
    Abstract: A piezoelectric monocrystalline substrate is composed of a material represented by LiAO3 (A represents at least one element selected from the group consisting of niobium and tantalum), a bonding layer is compose of a material of an oxide of at least one element selected from the group consisting of niobium and tantalum, and an interface layer is provided along an interface between the piezoelectric monocrystalline substrate 6 and bonding layer, and the interface layer has a composition of ExO(1-x) (E represents at least one element selected from the group consisting of niobium and tantalum and 0.29?x?0.89).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: NGK INSULATORS, LTD.
    Inventors: Masashi Goto, Tomoyoshi Tai, Takahiro Yamadera, Yuji Hori, Keiichiro Asai, Masahiko Namerikawa, Takashi Yoshino
  • Publication number: 20220190804
    Abstract: A composite substrate for an acoustic wave device includes a piezoelectric material layer, supporting substrate and x layers (x represents an integer of 3 or larger) of intermediate layers between the piezoelectric material layer and supporting substrate. The piezoelectric material layer, supporting substrate and intermediate layers satisfy a formula (1) (Rn<Rn+1), the formula (2) (Vn?1<Vn) is satisfied when x is an even number. A formula (3) (Vn?1>Vn) is satisfied when x is an odd number.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2022
    Publication date: June 16, 2022
    Inventors: Yuji HORI, Takahiro YAMADERA
  • Publication number: 20220158609
    Abstract: A bonded body includes a supporting substrate; a piezoelectric material substrate composed of a material selected from the group consisting of lithium niobate, lithium tantalate and lithium niobate-lithium tantalate; and a bonding layer bonding the supporting substrate and piezoelectric material substrate and contacting a main surface of the piezoelectric material substrate. Provided that at least one of a bonding surface of the supporting substrate and a bonding surface of the piezoelectric material substrate is measured by spectral ellipsometry and that ? is assigned to a difference of phases of p-polarized light and s-polarized light of a reflected light, a difference of the maximum and minimum values of the difference ? of the phases in a wavelength range of 400 nm to 760 nm is 70° or lower.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2021
    Publication date: May 19, 2022
    Inventors: Takahiro YAMADERA, Saki NAKAYAMA, Yuji HORI
  • Publication number: 20220103155
    Abstract: A composite substrate includes a supporting substrate composed of quartz, a piezoelectric material substrate composed of a material selected from the group consisting of lithium niobate, lithium tantalate and lithium niobate-lithium tantalate; and an interface layer along a bonding interface between the supporting substrate and the piezoelectric material substrate. The interface layer has amorphous structure and contains constituent components including silicon, oxygen and at least one of tantalum and niobium. The interface layer has concentrations of hydrogen atoms, nitrogen atoms and fluorine atoms of 1×1018 atoms/cm3 or higher and 5×1021 atoms/cm3 or lower, respectively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2021
    Publication date: March 31, 2022
    Inventors: Yuji HORI, Takahiro YAMADERA
  • Publication number: 20220103156
    Abstract: A composite substrate includes a supporting substrate composed of quartz, a piezoelectric material substrate, a first amorphous layer present between the supporting substrate and piezoelectric material substrate, and a second amorphous layer present between the supporting substrate and first amorphous layer. The first amorphous layer contains 10 to 30 atom % of silicon atoms, and the second amorphous layer contains 1 to 10 atom % of fluorine atoms.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2021
    Publication date: March 31, 2022
    Inventors: Yuji HORI, Takahiro YAMADERA
  • Patent number: 11239405
    Abstract: Described herein is a method of bonding a piezoelectric substrate to a support substrate to form a composite substrate. The piezoelectric substrate has one surface which is positively polarized, and a second surface which is negatively polarized. The method described herein includes the steps of bonding the positively polarized surface of the piezoelectric substrate to one surface of the support substrate by a direct bonding method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignees: NGK INSULATORS, LTD., NGK CERAMIC DEVICE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tomoyoshi Tai, Yuji Hori, Takahiro Yamadera, Ryosuke Hattori, Kengo Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20210328569
    Abstract: A bonded body includes a supporting substrate; a piezoelectric material substrate composed of a material selected from the group consisting of lithium niobate, lithium tantalate and lithium niobate-lithium tantalate; and a bonding layer bonding the supporting substrate and the piezoelectric material substrate and contacting a main surface of the piezoelectric material substrate. It is provided that at least one of a bonding surface of the supporting substrate and a bonding surface of the piezoelectric material substrate is measured by X-ray reflectivity method and that 1 is assigned to a signal intensity in the case of total reflection. A relative intensity I of a reflected light from the bonding surface is approximated by the following formula (1) in a range of 1.0×10?4 or larger and 1.0×10?1 or smaller.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2021
    Publication date: October 21, 2021
    Inventors: Yuji HORI, Takahiro YAMADERA
  • Publication number: 20210328570
    Abstract: A bonded body includes a supporting substrate; a piezoelectric material substrate composed of a material selected from the group consisting of lithium niobate, lithium tantalate and lithium niobate-lithium tantalate; and a bonding layer bonding the supporting substrate and piezoelectric material substrate and contacting a main surface of the piezoelectric material substrate. Provided that at least one of a bonding surface of the supporting substrate and a bonding surface of the piezoelectric material substrate is measured by spectral ellipsometry and that ? is assigned to a difference of phases of p-polarized light and s-polarized light of a reflected light, a difference of the maximum and minimum values of the difference ? of the phases in a wavelength range of 400 nm to 760 nm is 70° or lower.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2021
    Publication date: October 21, 2021
    Inventors: Takahiro YAMADERA, Saki NAKAYAMA, Yuji HORI
  • Publication number: 20210265558
    Abstract: A bonded body includes a supporting substrate, a silicon oxide layer provided on the supporting substrate, and a piezoelectric material substrate provided on the silicon oxide layer and composed of a material selected from the group consisting of lithium niobate, lithium tantalate and lithium niobate-lithium tantalate. The surface resistivity of the piezoelectric material substrate on the side of the silicon oxide layer is 1.7×101 5?/? or higher.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2020
    Publication date: August 26, 2021
    Inventors: Yuji HORI, Takahiro YAMADERA, Tatsuro TAKAGAKI
  • Patent number: 10965268
    Abstract: A bonded body includes a supporting substrate, a bonding layer provided on a surface of a supporting substrate and composed of silicon oxide, and a piezoelectric material substrate of a material selected from the group consisting of lithium niobate, lithium tantalate and lithium niobate-lithium tantalate. A convexity is provided on the surface of the supporting substrate, and the bonding layer includes a structural defect part extending above the convexity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: NGK INSULATORS, LTD.
    Inventors: Yuji Hori, Takahiro Yamadera
  • Publication number: 20210006224
    Abstract: A bonded body includes a supporting substrate, a bonding layer provided on a surface of a supporting substrate and composed of silicon oxide, and a piezoelectric material substrate of a material selected from the group consisting of lithium niobate, lithium tantalate and lithium niobate-lithium tantalate. A convexity is provided on the surface of the supporting substrate, and the bonding layer includes a structural defect part extending above the convexity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2020
    Publication date: January 7, 2021
    Inventors: Yuji HORI, Takahiro YAMADERA