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Radial Mode Lithium Niobate Rosen Transformer

Applied Physics 2025-11-24 v1

Abstract

In this work, we demonstrate the first two-port radial-mode Rosen transformer based on 36^{\circ}Y-cut lithium niobate (LN) for piezoelectric power conversion. The device achieves a high transformation ratio (TF) of 16, a high electromechanical coupling factor (k2k^2) of 16.8\% and a quality factor (QQ) of 2500, yielding an outstanding figure of merit (FoM = Qk2Q \cdot k^2) of 420. The fabricated transformer features a large effective turns ratio of 16 and delivers an open-circuit voltage gain of 45.56 (unloaded) and 40.57 with a load of 1 MΩ\Omega in parallel with 0.1 pF, validating its ability to provide efficient passive voltage amplification. An equivalent circuit model was developed to accurately fit both finite-element-simulated and measured admittance spectra, enabling reliable parameter extraction. These results establish LN radial-mode resonators as a promising high-performance, magnetic-less transformer platform.

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@article{arxiv.2511.17431,
  title  = {Radial Mode Lithium Niobate Rosen Transformer},
  author = {Ziqian Yao and Heather Chang and Eric Stolt and Clarissa Daniel and Tzu-Hsuan Hsu and Juan Rivas-Davila and Ruochen Lu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2511.17431},
  year   = {2025}
}