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Date of Patent:
Oct. 12, 2021

Filed:

May. 15, 2020
Applicant:

Qorvo Us, Inc., Greensboro, NC (US);

Inventor:

Robert Aigner, Ocoee, FL (US);

Assignee:

Qorvo US, Inc., Greensboro, NC (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03H 9/13 (2006.01); H03H 9/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H03H 9/131 (2013.01); H03H 9/0211 (2013.01); H03H 9/02015 (2013.01); H03H 9/02157 (2013.01); H03H 2009/02188 (2013.01);
Abstract

The present disclosure relates to a tunable Bulk Acoustic Wave (BAW) resonator with a top electrode, a bottom electrode, a piezoelectric layer sandwiched between the top electrode and the bottom electrode, and a reflection region underneath the bottom electrode. The reflection region includes a reflection layer and an ion-conductible structure between the bottom electrode and the reflection layer. Herein, the ion-conductible structure has a first terminal layer coupled to the bottom electrode, a second terminal layer coupled to the reflection layer, and an ion conductor between the first terminal layer and the second terminal layer. The ion conductor is eligible to transport ions between the first terminal layer and the second terminal layer, so as to achieve a mass-loading shift between the first terminal layer and the second terminal layer, and consequently, to tune a resonance frequency of the tunable BAW resonator.


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