A film bulk acoustic resonator based on ferroelectric aluminum scandium nitride films

J Wang, M Park, S Mertin, T Pensala… - Journal of …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This work reports on the first demonstration of the frequency tuning and intrinsic polarization
switching of film bulk acoustic resonators (FBARs), based on sputtered AlScN piezoelectric …

[HTML][HTML] High-fidelity patterning of AlN and ScAlN thin films with wet chemical etching

K Airola, S Mertin, J Likonen, E Hartikainen, K Mizohata… - Materialia, 2022 - Elsevier
We report on the anisotropic wet etching of sputtered AlN and Sc 0.2 Al 0.8 N thin films. With
tetramethyl ammonium hydroxide at 80° C, the etch rates along the c-axis were 330 and 30 …

Vertical and Lateral Etch Survey of Ferroelectric AlN/Al1−xScxN in Aqueous KOH Solutions

Z Tang, G Esteves, J Zheng, RH Olsson III - Micromachines, 2022 - mdpi.com
Due to their favorable electromechanical properties, such as high sound velocity, low
dielectric permittivity and high electromechanical coupling, Aluminum Nitride (AlN) and …

Deposition of highly crystalline AlScN thin films using synchronized high-power impulse magnetron sputtering: From combinatorial screening to piezoelectric devices

J Patidar, K Thorwarth, T Schmitz-Kempen… - Physical Review …, 2024 - APS
With the integration of 5G in day-to-day devices and the foreseeable 6G revolution, demand
for advanced radio frequency (RF) microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) is growing …

[HTML][HTML] Deposition and characterisation of c-axis oriented AlScN thin films via microwave plasma-assisted reactive HiPIMS

L Lapeyre, C Hain, P Sturm, J Metzger, A Borzi… - Surface and Coatings …, 2023 - Elsevier
In this work, we demonstrate that highly oriented c-axis aluminium scandium nitride (AlScN)
piezoelectric thin films can be deposited via microwave plasma-assisted reactive high power …

Characterization of AlScN-based multilayer systems for piezoelectric micromachined ultrasound transducer (pMUT) fabrication

K Bespalova, E Österlund, G Ross… - Journal of …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Scandium-alloyed aluminum nitride (AlScN) is a potential material for micro-
electromechanical systems because of its unique advantages, such as strong piezoelectric …

Impact of negative bias on the piezoelectric properties through the incidence of abnormal oriented grains in Al0. 62Sc0. 38N thin films

CS Sandu, F Parsapour, D **ao, R Nigon, LM Riemer… - Thin Solid Films, 2020 - Elsevier
Sputter deposited AlScN films with an Sc content of 38 at.% were investigated by X-ray
diffraction and electron microscopy to study the influence of the radio frequency (RF) bias on …

A piezoelectric micromachined ultrasonic transducer using thin-film lithium niobate

R Lu, M Breen, AE Hassanien, Y Yang… - Journal of …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This letter presents the first piezoelectric micromachined ultrasonic transducer (PMUT)
based on thin-film lithium niobate (LiNbO 3). The figures of merit (FoMs) of LiNbO 3 as …

High-pressure output 40 kHz air-coupled piezoelectric micromachined ultrasonic transducers

GL Luo, Y Kusano, MN Roberto… - 2019 IEEE 32nd …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents air-coupled piezoelectric micromachined ultrasonic transducers
(PMUTs) fabricated from single-crystal PZT, enabling very high sound pressure level (SPL) …

Study of AlScN thin film deposition on large size silicon wafer

T Zhao, K Guo - Thin Solid Films, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract This work prepared Al 0.8 Sc 0. 2N thin films (AlScN) with a thickness of 1 μm on Φ=
200 mm (100) bare silicon wafers and studied the effects of sputtering power, substrate bias …