[HTML][HTML] Advances in piezoelectric thin films for acoustic biosensors, acoustofluidics and lab-on-chip applications

YQ Fu, JK Luo, NT Nguyen, AJ Walton… - Progress in Materials …, 2017 - Elsevier
Recently, piezoelectric thin films including zinc oxide (ZnO) and aluminium nitride (AlN)
have found a broad range of lab-on-chip applications such as biosensing, particle/cell …

A High Q Value ScAlN/AlN-Based SAW Resonator for Load Sensing

B Lin, Y Liu, Y Cai, J Zhou, Y Zou… - … on Electron Devices, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article presents a high quality factor () load sensor based on Sc 0.2 Al 0.8 N/aluminum
nitride (AlN)-on-silicon surface acoustic wave (SAW) resonator. Finite element method …

Gravimetric biosensor based on a 1.3 GHz AlN shear-mode solidly mounted resonator

M DeMiguel-Ramos, B Díaz-Durán… - Sensors and Actuators B …, 2017 - Elsevier
We investigate the performance of solidly mounted resonators based on Ir/tilted-AlN/Ir
piezoelectric stacks as biosensors. These films are deposited by varying the pressure, the …

Mechanical and optical properties of SiO2 thin films deposited on glass

L Šimurka, R Čtvrtlík, J Tomaštík, G Bektaş, J Svoboda… - Chemical Papers, 2018 - Springer
The optical and mechanical properties of amorphous SiO 2 films deposited on soda-lime
silicate float glass by reactive RF magnetron sputtering at room temperature were …

Design and modelling of solidly mounted resonators for low-cost particle sensing

FH Villa-López, G Rughoobur, S Thomas… - Measurement …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
This work presents the design and fabrication of Solidly Mounted Resonator (SMR) devices
for the detection of particulate matter (PM2. 5 and PM10) in order to develop a smart low …

[PDF][PDF] Hybrid artificial neural networks and analytical model for prediction of optical constants and bandgap energy of 3D nanonetwork silicon structures

S Joshi, A Kiani - Opto-Electronic Advances, 2021 - researching.cn
The aim of this study is to develop a reliable method to determine optical constants for 3D-
nanonetwork Si thin films manufactured using a pulsed-laser ablation technique that can be …

High-acoustic-impedance tantalum oxide layers for insulating acoustic reflectors

J Capilla, J Olivares, M Clement… - IEEE transactions on …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This work describes the assessment of the acoustic properties of sputtered tantalum oxide
films intended for use as high-impedance films of acoustic reflectors for solidly mounted …

Low-thickness high-quality aluminum nitride films for super high frequency solidly mounted resonators

E Iborra, M Clement, J Capilla, J Olivares, V Felmetsger - Thin Solid Films, 2012 - Elsevier
We investigate the sputter growth of very thin aluminum nitride (AlN) films on iridium
electrodes for electroacoustic devices operating in the super high frequency range. Superior …

Room temperature sputtering of inclined c-axis ZnO for shear mode solidly mounted resonators

G Rughoobur, M DeMiguel-Ramos, T Mirea… - Applied Physics …, 2016 - pubs.aip.org
ZnO films with a c-axis significantly inclined away from the surface normal were grown by a
remote plasma sputtering technique at room temperature. The films were used to make …

Optical properties of Si/SiO2 nano structured films induced by laser plasma ionization deposition

MM Abed, F Gaspari, A Kiani - Optics Communications, 2020 - Elsevier
This research explores the optical properties of a large group of silicon/silica nanofibrous
thin films. A picosecond pulse laser was employed for indirect deposition of ablated silicon …