Abstract:
An integrated circuit device includes a first substrate having a ground plane. The integrated circuit device also includes a second substrate. The second substrate has a first layer of passive devices. The passive devices include at least one inductor on a first side of the second substrate. The first layer of passive devices is substantially orthogonal to the ground plane and the second substrate supported by the first substrate. An inductor magnetic field is substantially parallel to the ground plane.
Abstract:
Provided are space-efficient capacitors that have a higher quality factor than conventional designs and improve coupling of electrical energy from a through-glass via (TGV) to a dielectric. For example, provided is a TGV having a non-rectangular cross-section, where one end of the TGV is coupled to a first metal plate. A dielectric material is formed on the first metal plate. A second metal plate is formed on the dielectric material in a manner that overlaps at least a portion of the first metal plate to form at least one overlapped region of the dielectric material. At least a part of the perimeter of the overlapped region is non-planar. The overlapped region can be formed in a shape of a closed ring, in a plurality of portions of a ring shape, in substantially a quarter of a ring shape, and/or in substantially a half of a ring shape.
Abstract:
An apparatus includes a varactor having a first contact that is located on a first side of a substrate. The varactor includes a second contact that is located on a second side of the substrate, and the second side is opposite the first side. The apparatus further includes a signal path between the first contact and the second contact.
Abstract:
A device includes an acoustic resonator embedded within an encapsulating structure that at least partially encapsulates the acoustic resonator. The device includes an inductor electrically connected to the acoustic resonator. At least a portion of the inductor is embedded in the encapsulating structure.
Abstract:
A circuit includes a localized metal-insulator-metal (MIM) capacitor array in a radio frequency (RF) front end circuit, which is integrated on a first die, and includes a localized common shared ground node within the localized MIM capacitor array, a plurality of inductors, and a plurality of RF filters. Each of the plurality of RF filters includes a plurality of passive resonant frequency circuits, and each of the plurality of passive resonant frequency circuits is implemented utilizing one or more MIM capacitors in the localized MIM capacitor array, and one or more of the plurality of inductors. The plurality of inductors may be arranged at a periphery of the localized MIM capacitor array on the first die or integrated on a second die, which is coupled to the first die. Each of the MIM capacitors in the localized MIM capacitor array has a different capacitance value.
Abstract:
A device includes a glass substrate and a capacitor. The capacitor includes a first metal coupled to a first electrode, a dielectric structure, and a via structure comprising a second electrode of the capacitor. The first metal structure is separated from the via structure by the dielectric structure.
Abstract:
A resonator includes a piezoelectric core, a set of electrodes, and at least one ground terminal. The electrodes are arranged on the piezoelectric core and also includes at least one input electrode having a first width and at least one output electrode having a second width that differs from the first width. The ground terminal is also on the piezoelectric core.
Abstract:
An integrated circuit device includes a piezoelectric substrate having a first surface and a second surface opposite the first surface. The device also includes a first electrode and a second electrode on the first surface of the piezoelectric substrate, the first electrode having a first width and the second electrode having a second width. The device further includes a third electrode and a fourth electrode on the second surface of the piezoelectric substrate, the third electrode having a third width that is substantially the same as the second width, and the fourth electrode having a fourth width that is substantially the same as the first width. The first and third electrodes operate as part of a first portion of a microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) resonator, and the second and fourth electrodes operate as part of a second portion of the MEMS resonator.
Abstract:
Metal-insulator-metal (MIM) capacitors arranged in a pattern to reduce inductance, and related methods, are disclosed. In one aspect, circuits are provided that employ MIM capacitors coupled in series. The MIM capacitors are arranged in a pattern, wherein a MIM capacitor is placed so as to be electromagnetically adjacent to at least two MIM capacitors, and so that a current of the MIM capacitor flows in a direction opposite or substantially opposite of a direction in which a current of each adjacent MIM capacitor flows. The magnetic field generated at metal connections of each MIM capacitor rotates in an opposite direction of the magnetic field of each electromagnetically adjacent MIM capacitor, and thus a larger proportion of magnetic fields cancel out one another rather than combining, reducing equivalent series inductance (ESL) compared to linear arrangement of MIMs.
Abstract:
An interposer for a chipset includes multilayer thin film capacitors incorporated therein to reduce parasitic inductance in the chipset. Power and ground terminals are laid out in a staggered pattern to cancel magnetic fields between conductive vias to reduce equivalent series inductance (ESL).