Microwave acoustic devices: Recent advances and outlook

S Gong, R Lu, Y Yang, L Gao… - IEEE Journal of …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a short review of the microwave acoustics area, where exciting material
innovations and performance advancements have been made in the past decade. The ever …

MEMS resonators for frequency reference and timing applications

G Wu, J Xu, EJ Ng, W Chen - Journal of …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
An overview of microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) resonators for frequency reference
and timing applications is presented. The progress made in the past few decades in design …

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 …

A temperature-stable and low impedance piezoelectric MEMS resonator for drop-in replacement of quartz crystals

W Chen, W Jia, Y **ao, Z Feng… - IEEE Electron Device …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this letter, we report a highly temperature-stable and low impedance scandium doped
aluminum nitride (Sc x AI 1-x N,%) on silicon piezoelectric microelectromechanical system …

Nonconventional Tether Structure for Quality Factor Enhancement of Thin-Film-Piezoelectric-on-Si MEMS Resonator

M Awad, TB Workie, J Bao, K Hashimoto - Micromachines, 2023 - mdpi.com
This article presents a new design of supporting tethers through the concept of force
distribution. The transmitted force applied on tethers will be distributed on the new tether …

Five low-noise stable oscillators referenced to the same multimode AlN/Si MEMS resonator

T Kaisar, SMEH Yousuf, J Lee, A Qamar… - IEEE Transactions …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We report on the first experimental demonstration of five self-sustaining feedback oscillators
referenced to a single multimode resonator, using piezoelectric aluminum nitride on silicon …

Thermal Characterization of Ferroelectric Al1–xBxN for Nonvolatile Memory

K Kang, JA Casamento, DC Shoemaker… - … Applied Materials & …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Boron (B)-substituted wurtzite AlN (Al1–x B x N) is a recently discovered wurtzite ferroelectric
material that offers several advantages over ferroelectric Hf1–x Zr x O2 and PbZr1–x Ti x O3 …

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 …

High figure-of-merit NEMS thermal detectors based on 50-nm thick AlN nano-plate resonators

Z Qian, V Rajaram, S Kang, M Rinaldi - Applied Physics Letters, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
This paper reports on the demonstration of ultrafast (thermal time constant, τ∼ 166 μs) and
high resolution (noise equivalent power, NEP∼ 549 pW/Hz 1/2) thermal detectors based on …

ScAlN/3C-SiC/Si platform for monolithic integration of highly sensitive piezoelectric and piezoresistive devices

A Qamar, HP Phan, T Dinh, NT Nguyen… - Applied Physics …, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
This paper reports on a platform for monolithic integration of piezoelectric and piezoresistive
devices on a single chip using the ScAlN/3C-SiC/Si heterostructure. Surface acoustic wave …