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Surface acoustic waves (SAWs) have emerged as innovative and energy-efficient means to manipulate domain walls (DWs) and skyrmions in thin films with perpendicular magnetic anisotropy (PMA) owing to the magnetoelastic coupling effect. This…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-11-28 Jintao Shuai

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

We measure the phase velocities of surface acoustic waves (SAWs) propagating at different crystal orientations on (001)-cut GaAs substrates and their temperature dependance. We design and fabricate sets of interdigital transducers (IDTs) to…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-05-04 Mats Powlowski , Francois Sfigakis , Na Young Kim

The quantum excitations of macroscopic surface acoustic waves (SAWs) have been tailored to control, communicate and transduce stationary and flying quantum states. However, the limited lifetime of this hybrid quantum systems remains…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-26 Wenbing Jiang , Junfeng Chen , Xiaoyu Liu , Zhengqi Niu , Kuang Liu , Wei Peng , Zhen Wang , Zhi-Rong Lin

Surface acoustic waves (SAWs) are a versatile tool for coherently interfacing with a variety of solid-state quantum systems spanning microwave to optical frequencies, including superconducting qubits, spins, and quantum emitters. Here, we…

Electroluminescence emission from surface acoustic wave-driven light-emitting diodes (SAWLEDs) is studied by means of time-resolved techniques. We show that the intensity of the SAW-induced electroluminescence is modulated at the SAW…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 Marco Cecchini , Vincenzo Piazza , Fabio Beltram , D. G. Gevaux , M. B. Ward , A. J. Shields , H. E. Beere , D. A. Ritchie

Surface acoustic wave (SAW) is utilized in diverse fields ranging from physics, engineering, to biology, for transducing, sensing and processing various signals. Optical measurement of SAW provides valuable information since the amplitude…

Applied Physics · Physics 2021-11-09 Kotaro Taga , Ryusuke Hisatomi , Yuichi Ohnuma , Ryo Sasaki , Teruo Ono , Yasunobu Nakamura , Koji Usami

We report on all-optical generation and detection of high-frequency (up to about 30 GHz) surface acoustic waves (SAWs) in GaAs/AlGaAs heterostructures with short-period Au gratings on top. A highly sensitive method for SAW detection is…

Elastic waves propagating in piezoelectric materials are accompanied by a time-varying electric potential, which is of critical importance for acousto-electronic applications. The spatial mapping of such a potential at microwave frequencies…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-06-25 Lu Zheng , Di Wu , Xiaoyu Wu , Keji Lai

With the application of surface acoustic wave (SAW) of 39.5 MHz to a model polymer liquid film,polyisobutylene, deposited on the solid substrates, the liquid film is densified, proved by the decrease of film thickness and the increase of…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-07-15 Tianhao Hou , Jingfa Yang , Wen Wang , Jiang Zhao

Migrating active deicing capabilities to transparent materials with low thermal conductivity has a high potential to improve the operations of several seminal industries in the automotive, robotic, energy, and aerospace sectors. However,…

Rectification phenomenon caused by the simultaneous breaking of time reversal and spatial inversion symmetries has been extended to a wide range of (quasi)particles and waves; however, the nonreciprocal diffraction, which is the imbalance…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-05-30 Yoichi Nii , Kei Yamamoto , Masaki Kanno , Sadamichi Maekawa , Yoshinori Onose

Surface-acoustic-wave (SAW) resonators operating at gigahertz (GHz) frequencies are widely used in wireless telecommunication and quantum information processing. Successful implementation of such resonators calls for detailed microscopic…

Optics · Physics 2026-01-23 Shizai Chu , Suraj Thapa Magar , John Nichol , Keji Lai

The surface acoustic wave (SAWs) attenuation coefficient $\Gamma$ and the velocity change $\Delta V /V$ were measured for $p$-type Si/SiGe heterostructures in the temperature range 0.7 - 1.6 K as a function of external magnetic field $H$ up…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. O. Andrianov , I. L. Drichko , A. M. Diakonov , I. Yu. Smirnov , O. A. Mironov , M. Myronov , T. E. Whall , D. R. Leadley

Surface acoustic wave (SAW) resonators provide a compact platform for confining microwave-frequency phonons and are widely used in radio-frequency technologies, but their operation at gigahertz frequencies and cryogenic temperatures remains…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-05 Aldo Tarascio , Oliver Wicki , Dominik M. Zumbühl

On-chip quantum information processing requires controllable quantum light sources that can be operated on-demand at high-speeds and with the possibility of in-situ control of the photon emission wavelength and its optical polarization…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-02-22 S. Lazic , E. Chernysheva , A. Hernández-Mínguez , P. V. Santos , H. P. van der Meulen

We investigate the dependence of photonic waveguide propagation loss on the thickness of the buried oxide layer in Y-cut lithium niobate on insulator substrate to identify trade-offs between optical losses and electromechanical coupling of…

Applied Physics · Physics 2019-05-01 Lutong Cai , Ashraf Mahmoud , Gianluca Piazza

We numerically study silicon waveguides on silica showing that it is possible to simultaneously guide optical and acoustic waves in the technologically important silicon on insulator (SOI) material system. Thin waveguides, or fins, exhibit…

We investigate the modulation of optical phonons in semiconductor crystal by surface acoustic wave (SAW) propagating on the crystal surface. The SAW fields induce changes on the order of 10\textsuperscript{-3} in the average Raman…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-06-08 F. Iikawa , A. Hernández-Mínguez , M. Ramsteiner , P. V. Santos

We report on the fabrication of a Hybrid SAW/BAW resonator made of a thin layer of Sc-doped AlN (AlScN) with a Sc concentration of 40 at% on a 4H-SiC substrate. A Sezawa mode, excited by a vertical electric field, exploits the d31…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-10-15 Marco Liffredo , Silvan Stettler , Federico Peretti , Luis Guillermo Villanueva