Piezoelectric MEMS resonators: A review

G Pillai, SS Li - IEEE Sensors Journal, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Since two decades piezoelectric MEMS resonator research has been making a headway by
leaps and bounds in multiple fronts such as micro/nanofabrication techniques, device and …

Optically heralded microwave photon addition

W Jiang, FM Mayor, S Malik, R Van Laer, TP McKenna… - Nature Physics, 2023 - nature.com
Photons with optical frequencies of a few hundred terahertz are perhaps the only way to
distribute quantum information over long distances. Superconducting qubits, which are one …

Lithium Niobate Piezoelectric Micromachined Ultrasonic Transducers for high data-rate intrabody communication

F Pop, B Herrera, M Rinaldi - Nature communications, 2022 - nature.com
In recent years, there has been an increased interest in continuous monitoring of patients
and their Implanted Medical Devices (IMDs) with different wireless technologies such as …

Interdigital transducers on a piezoelectric thin-film for signal compression

S Gong, R Lu, TM Garcia - US Patent 11,451,209, 2022 - Google Patents
A piezoelectric thin-film suspended above a carrier substrate. An input interdigital transducer
(IDT) having first interdigitated electrodes is disposed at different locations along the …

Acousto-optic modulation of a wavelength-scale waveguide

CJ Sarabalis, R Van Laer, RN Patel, YD Dahmani… - Optica, 2021 - opg.optica.org
Since the advent of the laser, acousto-optic modulators have been an important tool for
controlling light. Recent advances in on-chip lithium niobate waveguide technology present …

Coupling a superconducting quantum circuit to a phononic crystal defect cavity

P Arrangoiz-Arriola, EA Wollack, M Pechal, JD Witmer… - Physical Review X, 2018 - APS
Connecting nanoscale mechanical resonators to microwave quantum circuits opens new
avenues for storing, processing, and transmitting quantum information. In this work, we …

Acousto-optic modulation in lithium niobate on sapphire

CJ Sarabalis, TP McKenna, RN Patel, R Van Laer… - Apl Photonics, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
We demonstrate the first acousto-optic modulators in lithium niobate films on sapphire,
detailing the dependence of the piezoelectric and optomechanical coupling coefficients on …

Optimized resonators for piezoelectric power conversion

WD Braun, EA Stolt, L Gu… - IEEE Open Journal …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The performance of inductors at high frequencies and small sizes is one of the largest
limiting factors in the continued miniaturization of dc-dc converters. Piezoelectric resonators …

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 …

Piezoelectric transduction of a wavelength-scale mechanical waveguide

YD Dahmani, CJ Sarabalis, W Jiang, FM Mayor… - Physical Review …, 2020 - APS
We present a piezoelectric transducer in thin-film lithium niobate that converts a 1.7-GHz
microwave signal to a mechanical wave in a single mode of a 1-μ m-wide waveguide. We …