Patents by Inventor Thierry Barge

Thierry Barge 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).

  • Publication number: 20260020498
    Abstract: A process for fabricating a semiconductor or piezoelectric structure comprises the following successive steps: (a) providing a donor substrate comprising a piezoelectric or semiconductor layer, (b) providing a receiver substrate, (c) treating a free surface of the donor substrate and/or a free surface of the receiver substrate, (d) bonding the donor substrate to the receiver substrate, the at least one treated free surface being at the interface between the donor substrate and the receiver substrate, and (e) transferring a portion of the piezoelectric or semiconductor layer from the donor substrate to the receiver substrate. The treatment of the free surface of the donor substrate and/or of the free surface of the receiver substrate comprises the following successive steps: (c1) chemical-mechanical polishing, and (c2) removing material from a peripheral region of the polished surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2023
    Publication date: January 15, 2026
    Inventors: Cédric Charles-Alfred, Alexis Drouin, Isabelle Huyet, Stéphane Thieffry, Marcel Broekaart, Thierry Barge
  • Publication number: 20250176430
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a donor substrate for the transfer of a piezoelectric layer onto a support substrate comprises providing a handling substrate and providing a piezoelectric substrate. A polymer layer is deposited on the handling substrate or the piezoelectric substrate. An intermediate layer is formed on a free surface of the piezoelectric substrate, and the piezoelectric substrate is assembled on the handling substrate such that the intermediate layer formed on the piezoelectric substrate is between the polymer layer and the piezoelectric substrate to form the donor substrate. A donor substrate may be manufactured by such a method, and such a donor substrate may be used for transferring a piezoelectric layer to another substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2023
    Publication date: May 29, 2025
    Inventors: Marcel Broekaart, Cédric Charles-Alfred, Luciana Capello, Morgane Logiou, Thierry Barge
  • Publication number: 20250176431
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a donor substrate for the transfer of a piezoelectric layer onto a support substrate comprises providing a handling substrate and a piezoelectric substrate. A surface activation treatment is carried out on the surface of the piezoelectric substrate to form an activated surface on the piezoelectric substrate. A polymer layer is deposited on the activated surface of the piezoelectric substrate or on the handling substrate. The piezoelectric substrate is then assembled on the handling substrate in such a way that the polymer layer is between the activated surface of the piezoelectric substrate and the handling substrate. The donor substrate may be used to transfer a layer of piezoelectric material from the donor substrate onto a support substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2023
    Publication date: May 29, 2025
    Inventors: Marcel Broekaart, Cédric Charles-Alfred, Luciana Capello, Morgane Logiou, Thierry Barge
  • Patent number: 12278608
    Abstract: A process for fabricating a substrate for a radiofrequency device includes providing a piezoelectric substrate and a carrier substrate, depositing a dielectric layer on a surface of the piezoelectric substrate, assembling together the piezoelectric substrate and the carrier substrate with a polymerizable adhesive directly between the dielectric layer and the carrier substrate to form an assembled substrate, and polymerizing the polymerizable adhesive layer to form a polymerized layer bonding the piezoelectric substrate to the carrier substrate, the polymerized layer and the dielectric layer together forming an electrically insulating layer between the piezoelectric substrate and the carrier substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2024
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignee: SOITEC
    Inventors: Djamel Belhachemi, Thierry Barge
  • Patent number: 12272540
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a substrate includes the following steps: (a) providing a support substrate with a first coefficient of thermal expansion, having on one of its faces a first plurality of trenches parallel to each other in a first direction, and a second plurality of trenches parallel to each other in a second direction; (b) transferring a useful layer from a donor substrate to the support substrate, the useful layer having a second coefficient of thermal expansion; wherein an intermediate layer is inserted between the front face of the support substrate and the useful layer, the intermediate layer having a coefficient of thermal expansion between the first and second coefficients of thermal expansion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: SOITEC
    Inventors: Pascal Guenard, Marcel Broekaart, Thierry Barge
  • Publication number: 20250081852
    Abstract: A method for transferring a piezoelectric layer onto a support substrate comprises:—providing a donor substrate including a heterostructure comprising a piezoelectric substrate bonded to a handling substrate, and a polymerized adhesive layer at the interface between the piezoelectric substrate and the handling substrate,—forming a weakened zone in the piezoelectric substrate so as to delimit the piezoelectric layer to be transferred,—providing the support substrate,—forming a dielectric layer on a main face of the support substrate and/or of the piezoelectric substrate,—bonding the donor substrate to the support substrate, the dielectric layer being at the bonding interface, and-fracturing and separating the donor substrate along the weakened zone at a temperature below or equal to 300° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2024
    Publication date: March 6, 2025
    Inventors: Djamel Belhachemi, Thierry Barge
  • Patent number: 12167694
    Abstract: A method for transferring a piezoelectric layer onto a support substrate comprises: —providing a donor substrate including a heterostructure comprising a piezoelectric substrate bonded to a handling substrate, and a polymerized adhesive layer at the interface between the piezoelectric substrate and the handling substrate, —forming a weakened zone in the piezoelectric substrate, so as to delimit the piezoelectric layer to be transferred, —providing the support substrate, —forming a dielectric layer on a main face of the support substrate and/or of the piezoelectric substrate, —bonding the donor substrate to the support substrate, the dielectric layer being at the bonding interface, and—fracturing and separating the donor substrate along the weakened zone at a temperature below or equal to 300° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: SOITEC
    Inventors: Djamel Belhachemi, Thierry Barge
  • Patent number: 12143093
    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: July 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: Soitec
    Inventors: Marcel Broekaart, Thierry Barge, Pascal Guenard, Ionut Radu, Eric Desbonnets, Oleg Kononchuk
  • Publication number: 20240213944
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a substrate for a radiofrequency filter by joining a piezoelectric layer to a carrier substrate via an electrically insulating layer, wherein the method comprises depositing the electrically insulating layer by spin coating an oxide belonging to the family of SOGs (spin-on glasses) on the surface of the piezoelectric layer to be joined to the carrier substrate, followed by an anneal for densifying the electrically insulating layer before joining the piezoelectric layer to the carrier substrate via the electrically insulating layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2024
    Publication date: June 27, 2024
    Inventors: Djamel Belhachemi, Thierry Barge
  • Publication number: 20240178056
    Abstract: A method of transferring a layer from a heterostructure to a receiver substrate comprises the following successive steps: supplying a donor substrate of a first material and a carrier substrate of a second material, bonding the donor substrate to the carrier substrate, thinning the donor substrate, so as to form the heterostructure comprising the thinned donor substrate on the carrier substrate, removing a peripheral portion of the donor substrate, forming a weakened region in the thinned donor substrate so as to delimit a layer of the first material to be transferred, bonding the heterostructure to a receiver substrate, the layer of the first material to be transferred being located at the bonding interface, and detaching the donor substrate along the weakened region so as to transfer the layer of the first material to the receiver substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2022
    Publication date: May 30, 2024
    Inventor: Thierry Barge
  • Patent number: 11979132
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a substrate for a radiofrequency filter by joining a piezoelectric layer to a carrier substrate via an electrically insulating layer, wherein the method comprises depositing the electrically insulating layer by spin coating an oxide belonging to the family of SOGs (spin-on glasses) on the surface of the piezoelectric layer to be joined to the carrier substrate, followed by an anneal for densifying the electrically insulating layer before joining the piezoelectric layer to the carrier substrate via the electrically insulating layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Soitec
    Inventors: Djamel Belhachemi, Thierry Barge
  • Publication number: 20240146275
    Abstract: A process for fabricating a substrate for a radiofrequency device includes providing a piezoelectric substrate and a carrier substrate, depositing a dielectric layer on a surface of the piezoelectric substrate, assembling together the piezoelectric substrate and the carrier substrate with a polymerizable adhesive directly between the dielectric layer and the carrier substrate to form an assembled substrate, and polymerizing the polymerizable adhesive layer to form a polymerized layer bonding the piezoelectric substrate to the carrier substrate, the polymerized layer and the dielectric layer together forming an electrically insulating layer between the piezoelectric substrate and the carrier substrate,
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 4, 2024
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Inventors: Djamel Belhachemi, Thierry Barge
  • Publication number: 20240014027
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a substrate includes the following steps: (a) providing a support substrate with a first coefficient of thermal expansion, having on one of its faces a first plurality of trenches parallel to each other in a first direction, and a second plurality of trenches parallel to each other in a second direction; (b) transferring a useful layer from a donor substrate to the support substrate, the useful layer having a second coefficient of thermal expansion; wherein an intermediate layer is inserted between the front face of the support substrate and the useful layer, the intermediate layer having a coefficient of thermal expansion between the first and second coefficients of thermal expansion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2023
    Publication date: January 11, 2024
    Inventors: Pascal Guenard, Marcel Broekaart, Thierry Barge
  • Patent number: 11870411
    Abstract: A process for fabricating a substrate for a radiofrequency device by joining a piezoelectric layer to a carrier substrate by way of an electrically insulating layer, the piezoelectric layer having a rough surface at its interface with the electrically insulating layer, the process being characterized in that it comprises the following steps: —providing a piezoelectric substrate having a rough surface for reflecting a radiofrequency wave, —depositing a dielectric layer on the rough surface of the piezoelectric substrate, —providing a carrier substrate, —depositing a photo-polymerizable adhesive layer on the carrier substrate, —bonding the piezoelectric substrate to the carrier substrate by way of the dielectric layer and of the adhesive layer, in order to form an assembled substrate, —irradiating the assembled substrate with a light flux in order to polymerize the adhesive layer, the adhesive layer and the dielectric layer together forming the electrically insulating layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: SOITEC
    Inventors: Djamel Belhachemi, Thierry Barge
  • Patent number: 11837463
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a substrate includes the following steps: (a) providing a support substrate with a first coefficient of thermal expansion, having on one of its faces a first plurality of trenches parallel to each other in a first direction, and a second plurality of trenches parallel to each other in a second direction; (b) transferring a useful layer from a donor substrate to the support substrate, the useful layer having a second coefficient of thermal expansion; wherein an intermediate layer is inserted between the front face of the support substrate and the useful layer, the intermediate layer having a coefficient of thermal expansion between the first and second coefficients of thermal expansion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: SOITEC
    Inventors: Pascal Guenard, Marcel Broekaart, Thierry Barge
  • 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
  • Publication number: 20230291377
    Abstract: A process for manufacturing a piezoelectric structure for a radiofrequency device comprises providing a substrate of piezoelectric material, providing a carrier substrate, providing a dielectric bonding layer on the substrate of piezoelectric material, a step of joining the substrate of piezoelectric material to the carrier substrate via the dielectric bonding layer, and a thinning step for forming the piezoelectric structure, which comprises a layer of piezoelectric material joined to a carrier substrate via the dielectric bonding layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2021
    Publication date: September 14, 2023
    Inventors: Djamel Belhachemi, Thierry Barge, Oleg Kononchuk, Brice Tavel
  • 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: 20210159869
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a substrate for a radiofrequency filter by joining a piezoelectric layer to a carrier substrate via an electrically insulating layer, wherein the method comprises depositing the electrically insulating layer by spin coating an oxide belonging to the family of SOGs (spin-on glasses) on the surface of the piezoelectric layer to be joined to the carrier substrate, followed by an anneal for densifying the electrically insulating layer before joining the piezoelectric layer to the carrier substrate via the electrically insulating layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2019
    Publication date: May 27, 2021
    Inventors: Djamel Belhachemi, Thierry Barge
  • 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