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Shear horizontal surface acoustic wave (SH-SAW) sensors are considered as a viable option for label-free, sensitive, real-time, and cost-effective detection. In this paper, we present the design, the fabrication and the characterization of…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-06-18 Alexandre Westrelin , Pierre Debavelear , Mathieu Lefevbre , Nour Abdallah , Kamal Lmimouni , Olivier Stienne , Bilel Hafsi

Frequency instabilities are a major source of errors in quantum devices. This study investigates frequency fluctuations in a surface acoustic wave (SAW) resonator, where reflection coefficients of 14 SAW modes are measured simultaneously…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-11 Nuttamas Tubsrinuan , Jared H. Cole , Per Delsing , Gustav Andersson

Surface acoustic waves (SAWs) provide a contactless method for measuring the wavevector-dependent conductivity. This technique has been used to discover emergent length scales in the fractional quantum Hall regime of traditional,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-06-21 Yawen Fang , Yang Xu , Kaifei Kang , Benyamin Davaji , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Amit Lal , Kin Fai Mak , Jie Shan , B. J. Ramshaw

Applications in quantum information processing and photon detectors are stimulating a race to produce the highest possible quality factor on-chip superconducting microwave resonators. We have tested the surface-dominated loss hypothesis by…

Superconductivity · Physics 2012-06-06 K. Geerlings , S. Shankar , E. Edwards , L. Frunzio , R. J. Schoelkopf , M. H. Devoret

Surface Acoustic Wave (SAW) is a powerful technique for investigating quantum phases appearing in two-dimensional electron systems. The electrons respond to the piezoelectric field of SAWthrough screening, attenuating its amplitude and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-27 Xiao Liu , Mengmeng Wu , Renfei Wang , Xinghao Wang , Wenfeng Zhang , Yujiang Dong , Rui-Rui Du , Yang Liu , Xi Lin

Surface acoustic wave (SAW) devices are widely used in sensing and biosensing but generally suffer from strong attenuation in liquid environments. Conventional approaches rely on reflectors to reduce these losses, yet these components…

We experimentally study the optical emission of a thin quantum well and its dynamic modulation by a surface acoustic wave (SAW). We observe a characteristic transition of the modulation from one maximum to two maxima per SAW cycle as the…

We investigate the propagation of surface acoustic waves (SAWs) in a layered half-space system comprising a continuous, sub-wavelength-thick layer weakly adhering to a substrate. Using finite element simulations, we demonstrate that this…

Applied Physics · Physics 2026-02-25 Martin Robin , Thomas Dehoux , Maroun Abi Ghanem

Interdigitated transducers were used to generate and detect surface acoustic waves on a thin layer of (Ga,Mn)(As,P). The out-of-plane uniaxial magnetic anisotropy of this dilute magnetic semiconductor is very sensitive to the strain of the…

Low-loss superconducting rf devices are required when used for quantum computation. Here, we present a series of measurements and simulations showing that conducting losses in the packaging of our superconducting resonator devices affect…

Surface-acoustic-wave (SAW) resonators are a promising platform for constructing hybrid quantum systems, where confined acoustic waves enable strong interaction with various physical systems. Focusing SAW resonators, reducing mode volume…

The performance of superconducting resonators underpins a wide range of modern quantum technologies, yet their quality factor often deviates at low temperatures from standard Mattis-Bardeen predictions. This discrepancy is often attributed…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-05-12 Zhenyuan Sun , S Withington , Songyuan Zhao

This study investigates the use of spiral geometry in superconducting resonators to achieve high intrinsic quality factors, crucial for applications in quantum computation and quantum sensing. We fabricated Archimedean Spiral Resonators…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-08 Yusuke Tominaga , Shotaro Shirai , Yuji Hishida , Hirotaka Terai , Atsushi Noguchi

Recent progress shows that a surface-acoustic-wave (SAW) cavity can not only induce quantum acoustic dynamics but also can form optomechanical-like systems. Its operating frequencies in the microwave band make it resistant to the thermal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-24 Yuting Zhu , Shibei Xue , Fangfang Ju , Haidong Yuan

In this work, we demonstrate a C-band shear-horizontal surface acoustic wave (SH-SAW) resonator with high electromechanical coupling (kt2) of 22% and a quality factor (Q) of 565 based on a thin-film lithium niobate (LN) on silicon carbide…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-06 Tzu-Hsuan Hsu , Joshua Campbell , Jack Kramer , Sinwoo Cho , Ming-Huang Li , Ruochen Lu

We report ring resonators on a silicon germanium on silicon platform operating in the mid-infrared wavelength range around 3.5 - 4.6 {\mu}m with quality factors reaching up to one million. Advances in fabrication technology enable us to…

Controlling the frequency of nonclassical light is indispensable for implementing quantum computation, communication and bridging various quantum systems. However, frequency-shift devices for solid state single-photon sources that are easy…

Optics · Physics 2023-11-09 Jiaxing Guo , Huijun Zhao , Kaili Xiong , Pingxing Chen , Yang Zhang , Yan Chen

Filtering surface acoustic wave (SAW) signals of specified frequencies depending on the strength of an external magnetic field in a magnetostrictive material has garnered significant interest due to its potential scientific and industrial…

The propagation of a surface acoustic wave (SAW) on GaAs/AlGaAs heterostructures is studied in the case where the two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) is subject to a strong magnetic field and a smooth random potential with correlation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-28 Andreas Knaebchen , Yehoshua Levinson , Ora Entin-Wohlman

We study the optomechanical properties of stoichiometric SiN resonators through a combination of spectroscopic and interferometric imaging techniques. At room temperature, we demonstrate ultrahigh quality factors of $5 \times 10^7$ and a $f…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 S. Chakram , Y. S. Patil , L. Chang , M. Vengalattore