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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

Surface acoustic waves (SAWs) are a powerful tool for controlling a wide range of quantum systems, particularly quantum dots (QDs) via their oscillating strain fields. The resulting energy modulation of these single photon sources can be…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-07-18 Thomas Descamps , Tanguy Schetelat , Jun Gao , Philip J. Poole , Dan Dalacu , Ali W. Elshaari , Val Zwiller

Electroluminescence emission controlled by means of surface acoustic waves (SAWs) in planar light-emitting diodes (pLEDs) is demonstrated. Interdigital transducers for SAW generation were integrated onto pLEDs fabricated following the…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 Marco Cecchini , Giorgio De Simoni , Vincenzo Piazza , Fabio Beltram , H. E. Beere , D. A. Ritchie

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

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

In recent years, surface acoustic waves (SAWs) have emerged as a novel technique for generating quasiparticle transport and band modulation in condensed matter systems. SAWs interact with adjacent materials through piezoelectric and strain…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-03-10 Yicheng Mou , Jiayu Wang , Haonan Chen , Yingchao Xia , Hailong Li , Qing Yan , Xue Jiang , Yijia Wu , Wu Shi , Hua Jiang , X. C. Xie , Cheng Zhang

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 report on an experimental demonstration of surface acoustic waves monitoring on a thin metal plate with heterodyne optical holography. Narrowband imaging of local optical pathlength modulation is achieved with a frequency-tunable…

Optics · Physics 2014-03-19 Francois Bruno , Jérôme Laurent , Daniel Royer , Michael Atlan

From radio-electronics signal analysis to biological samples actuation, surface acoustic waves (SAW) are involved in a multitude of modern devices. Despite this versatility, SAW transducers developed up to date only authorize the synthesis…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-09-23 Antoine Riaud , Jean-Louis Thomas , Eric Charron , Adrien Bussonnière , Olivier Bou Matar , Michaël Baudoin

Surface acoustic wave (SAW) devices are widely used in modern communication equipment and SAW equations describe the critical physical processes of acoustic-electric conversion in SAW devices. It is very challenging to numerically solve…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-04-07 Jianguo Huang , Likun Qiu

We present results from an instrument combining surface acoustic wave (SAW) propagation and surface plasmon resonance (SPR) measurements. The objective is to use two independent methods, the former based on adsorbed mass change measurements…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 J. -M. Friedt , L. Francis , G. Reekmans , R. De Palma , A. Campitelli , U. B. Sleytr

Low-phase-noise microwave-frequency integrated oscillators provide compact solutions for various applications in signal processing, communications, and sensing. Surface acoustic waves (SAW), featuring orders-of-magnitude shorter wavelength…

A non-magnetic layer can inject spin-polarized currents into an adjacent ferromagnetic layer via spin vorticity coupling (SVC), inducing spin wave resonance (SWR). In this work, we present the theoretical model of SWR generated by…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-04-19 Mingxian Huang , Wenbin Hu , Huaiwu Zhang , Feiming Bai

In this manuscript, the temporal rainbow effect for surface acoustic waves (SAW) is illustrated through a temporal analog of space metagradings. We show that a time-modulated array of mechanical resonators induces a wavenumber-preserving…

Applied Physics · Physics 2024-01-26 Jonatha Santini , Xingbo Pu , Antonio Palermo , Francesco Braghin , Emanuele Riva

Full characterization of surface acoustic wave (SAW) devices requires imaging the spatial distribution of the acoustic field, which is not possible with standard all-electrical measurements where an interdigital transducer (IDT) is used as…

Optics · Physics 2024-08-22 M. Fisicaro , T. A. Steenbergen , Y. C. Doedes , K. Heeck , W. Löffler

Charge carrier transport is pivotal in advancing nanoelectronics. Despite progress in exciton transport within ultra-thin semiconductors, the intertwined transport of free carriers and excitons presents challenges. Surface Acoustic Waves…

Optics · Physics 2025-03-11 Xueqian Sun , Shuyao Qiu , Hao Qin , Yuerui Lu

A thin-film model for a meniscus driven by Rayleigh surface acoustic waves (SAW) is analysed, a problem closely related to the classical Landau-Levich or dragged-film problem where a plate is withdrawn at constant speed from a bath. We…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2021-09-22 Kevin David Joachim Mitas , Ofer Manor , Uwe Thiele

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

We use a surface acoustic wave (SAW) cavity resonator to study the coupling of acoustic magnons in a synthetic antiferromagnet (SAF) and the phonons carried by SAWs. The SAF is composed of a CoFeB/Ru/CoFeB trilayer and the scattering matrix…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-11-10 Hiroki Matsumoto , Isamu Yasuda , Motoki Asano , Takuya Kawada , Masashi Kawaguchi , Daiki Hatanaka , Masamitsu Hayashi

Piezoelectric surface acoustic waves (SAWs) are powerful for investigating and controlling elementary and collective excitations in condensed matter. In semiconductor two-dimensional electron systems SAWs have been used to reveal the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-07-09 H. Byeon , K. Nasyedkin , J. R. Lane , N. R. Beysengulov , L. Zhang , R. Loloee , J. Pollanen