The commercial success of radio-frequency acoustic filters in wireless communication
systems has launched aluminum nitride (AlN) as one of the most widely used …

A new class of hybrid systems that couple optical, electrical and mechanical degrees of
freedom in nanoscale devices is under development in laboratories worldwide. These nano …

Mechanical objects have important practical applications in the fields of quantum information
and metrology as quantum memories or transducers for measuring and connecting different …

Radio-frequency communication systems have long used bulk-and surface-acoustic-wave
devices supporting ultrasonic mechanical waves to manipulate and sense signals. These …

Nonreciprocal circuit elements form an integral part of modern measurement and
communication systems. Mathematically they require breaking of time-reversal symmetry …

Quantum networks are likely to have a profound impact on the way we compute and
communicate in the future. In order to wire together superconducting quantum processors …

Linking superconducting quantum devices to optical fibers via microwave-optical quantum
transducers may enable large-scale quantum networks. For this application, transducers …

Mechanical systems facilitate the development of a hybrid quantum technology comprising
electrical, optical, atomic and acoustic degrees of freedom, and entanglement is essential to …

We demonstrate a platform for phase and amplitude modulation in silicon nitride photonic
integrated circuits via piezo-optomechanical coupling using tightly mechanically coupled …

Superinductors have a characteristic impedance exceeding the resistance quantum RQ≈
6.45 k Ω, which leads to a suppression of ground-state charge fluctuations. Applications …