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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 12, 2013
Filed:
Feb. 01, 2011
Kazufumi Suenaga, Tsuchiura, JP;
Kenji Shibata, Tsukuba, JP;
Kazutoshi Watanabe, Tsuchiura, JP;
Akira Nomoto, Kasumigaura, JP;
Kazufumi Suenaga, Tsuchiura, JP;
Kenji Shibata, Tsukuba, JP;
Kazutoshi Watanabe, Tsuchiura, JP;
Akira Nomoto, Kasumigaura, JP;
Hitachi Cable, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A piezoelectric film element is provided, which is capable of improving piezoelectric properties, having on a substrate at least a lower electrode, a lead-free piezoelectric film, and an upper electrode, wherein at least the lower electrode out of the lower electrode and the upper electrode has a crystal structure of a cubic crystal system, a tetragonal crystal system, an orthorhombic crystal system, a hexagonal crystal system, a monoclinic crystal system, a triclinic crystal system, a trigonal crystal system, or has a composition in which one of these crystals exists or two or more of them coexist, and crystal axes of the crystal structure are preferentially oriented to a specific axis smaller than or equal to two axes of these crystals, and a ratio c/a' is set in a range of 0.992 or more and 0.999 or less, which is the ratio of a crystal lattice spacing c in a direction of a normal line to the substrate surface, with respect to a crystal lattice spacing a′ whose inclination angle from the substrate surface is in a range of 10° or more and 30° or less.