Patent 11133788 was granted and assigned to NGK Insulators on September, 2021 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A bonded body includes: a piezoelectric single crystal substrate; a supporting substrate composed of a single crystal silicon; a bonding layer—provided between the supporting substrate and piezoelectric single crystal substrate and having a composition of Si(1-x)Ox (0.008≤x≤0.408); and an amorphous layer provided between the supporting substrate and bonding layer and containing silicon atoms, oxygen atoms, and argon atoms. The concentration of the oxygen atoms in an end part of the amorphous layer on a side of the bonding layer is higher than the average concentration of the oxygen atoms in the bonding layer.