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Piezoelectric resonators are a common building block for signal processing because of their miniature size, low insertion loss, and high quality factor. As consumer electronics push to millimeter waves frequencies, designers must increase…
We report measurements of the Stark shift of the cesium $6s \: ^2S_{3/2} \rightarrow 7p \: ^2P_{3/2} $ and the $6s \: ^2S_{1/2} \rightarrow 7p \: ^2P_{1/2} $ transitions at $\lambda = 456$ nm and 459 nm, respectively, in an atomic beam.…
Lithium Niobate (LiNbO$_3$) is a piezoelectric crystal with a high electromechanical coupling coefficient. The development and miniaturization of acousto-electronics, and acousto-optics modulation filters, are primarily based on surface…
We developed a lattice dynamical theory of an atomically-thin compressional piezoelectric resonator. Acoustic and optical dynamic displacement response functions are derived and account for frequency-dependent electromechanical coupling.…
Inelastic neutron-scattering measurements were performed on a single crystal of the layered colossal magnetoresistance (CMR) material La1.2Sr1.8Mn2O7 (Tc ~ 120K). We found that the spin wave dispersion is almost perfectly two-dimensional…
The structural, electronic, elastic and optical properties of tetragonal (P4mm) phase of Pb0.5Sn0.5TiO3 (PSTO) and Pb0.5Sn0.5Ti0.5(Zr0.5)O3 (PSTZO) are examined by first-principles calculations based on the density functional theory (DFT)…
Within the framework of proton model with taking into account the piezoelectric interaction with the shear strain $\varepsilon_4$, a dynamic dielectric response of KH$_2$PO$_4$ family crystals to the electric field perpendicular to the axis…
We suggest a new approach for analyzing spatial anisotropy of acoustooptic figure of merit (AOFM). The relations for the effective elastooptic coefficients and the AOFM are derived for all possible types of acoustooptic (AO) interactions in…
This work aimed first at growing high quality bulk $\alpha$-GeO$_2$ crystals in their Quartz iso-structural form ($\alpha$-SiO$_2$), using a high temperature flux method. By optimizing the flux composition and the geometry and orientation…
A high repetition rate, picosecond THz parametric amplifier (TPA) with a LiNbO3 (LN) crystal has been demonstrated in this work. At 10 kHz repetition rate, a peak power of 200 W and an average power of 12 {\mu}W have been obtained over a…
The structure and dielectric properties of 6% $\rm{Sr}^{2+}$-substituted, modified Lead Zirconium Titanate (PZT) piezoelectric ceramic, with composition…
We report a study of properties of Mn-doped NBT-6%BT single crystals. We show that tetragonal single domain states can be stabilized by poling along a [001] direction. For carefully prepared crystals, the piezoelectric coefficient d33 can…
Recent developments in piezoelectric films have heightened the need for the reliable methods to correctly characterize their piezoelectric coefficients. Here, we demonstrate that capacitive displacement method can be used to determine…
The Y2SiO5 (YSO) crystal is a dielectric material with biaxial anisotropy with known values of refractive index at optical frequencies. It is a well-known rare-earth (RE) host material for optical research and more recently has shown…
Lattices of odd-layered two-dimensional (2D) transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) such as WSe2 are non-centrosymmetric, and thus could possess linear piezoelectricity that is attractive for applications such as nanoelectromechanical…
The six independent elastic constants of Sr$_2$RuO$_4$ were determined using resonant ultrasound spectroscopy on a high-quality single-crystal specimen. The constants are in excellent agreement with those obtained from pulse-echo…
The rational design of two-dimensional piezoelectric materials has recently garnered great interest due to their increasing use in technological applications, including sensor technology, actuating devices, energy harvesting, and medical…
An unresolved issue in the commonly used Pb(Zr1-xTix)O3 (PZT) ceramics is understanding the intrinsic piezoelectric behaviors of its crystal around the morphotropic phase boundary (MPB). Here, we demonstrate a novel approach to grow c-axis…
We develop a formalism for the calculation of the frequency band structure of a phononic crystal consisting of non-overlapping elastic spheres, characterized by Lam\'e coefficients which may be complex and frequency dependent, arranged…
The results of new experimental measurements of p16O elastic scattering in the energy range of 0.6-1.0 MeV at angles of 40-160 deg. are given. Phase shift analysis of p16O elastic scattering was made using these and other experimental data…