RF acoustic microsystems based on suspended lithium niobate thin films: Advances and outlook

R Lu, S Gong - Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
This paper presents a review of the radio frequency thin-film lithium niobate (LiNbO 3) based
acoustic microsystems. Thanks to their high electromechanical coupling (k 2), low loss, and …

Investigation of 20% scandium-doped aluminum nitride films for MEMS laterally vibrating resonators

L Colombo, A Kochhar, C Xu, G Piazza… - 2017 IEEE …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper reports on the investigation of 1 μm thick films of 20% Scandium-doped
Aluminum Nitride (ScAlN) for the making of piezoelectric MEMS laterally vibrating resonators …

High-figure-of-merit X-cut lithium niobate MEMS resonators operating around 50 MHz for large passive voltage amplification in radio frequency applications

L Colombo, A Kochhar… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article reports on the modeling, design, fabrication, and testing of high-performance X-
cut lithium niobate (LN) laterally vibrating resonators (LVRs) operating around 50 MHz. The …

Resonant microelectromechanical receiver

A Kochhar, ME Galanko, M Soliman… - Journal of …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper reports a practical demonstration of a proposed resonant
microelectromechanical receiver for low power wake-up receiver (WuRx) applications. The …

Near spurious-free thickness shear mode lithium niobate resonator for piezoelectric power conversion

K Nguyen, V Chulukhadze, E Stolt… - IEEE Transactions …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Piezoelectric power converters, where acoustic resonators replace the inductors as energy
storage elements, promise much higher power density and higher efficiency compared to …

55.4 GHz Bulk Acoustic Resonator in Thin-Film Scandium Aluminum Nitride

S Cho, O Barrera, P Simeoni, J Kramer… - 2023 IEEE …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This study describes a sputtered scandium aluminum nitride (ScAlN) thin-film bulk acoustic
resonator (FBAR) at 55.4 GHz. The resonator leverages the third-order symmetric (S3) mode …

Investigation of electromechanical coupling and quality factor of X-cut lithium niobate laterally vibrating resonators operating around 400 MHz

FV Pop, AS Kochhar, G Vidal-Álvarez… - Journal of …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper we present laterally vibrating resonators (LVRs) based on X-cut lithium niobate
(LN) exhibiting a maximum quality factor (Q) around 1200 and an electromechanical …

A unidirectional transducer design for scaling GHz AlN-based RF microsystems

R Lu, S Link, S Gong - IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this work, we present a novel unidirectional transducer design for frequency scaling
aluminum nitride (AlN)-based radio frequency (RF) microsystems. The proposed thickness …

Comparison between different MEMS laterally vibrating resonator technologies for passive voltage amplification in an RF front-end system

L Colombo, A Kochhar, G Vidal-Álvarez… - 2018 IEEE MTT-S …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper describes the challenges associated with attaining passive voltage gain by
means of piezoelectric MEMS Laterally Vibrating Resonators (LVRs) in an RF frontend …

Top electrode shaping for harnessing high coupling in thickness shear mode resonators in Y-cut lithium niobate thin films

A Kochhar, G Vidal-Alvarez… - 2018 IEEE Micro …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper reports a novel electrode shape for harnessing the high electromechanical
coupling of the thickness shear mode (TSM) in Y-cut lithium niobate (LN) thin film …