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High-performance piezoelectric resonators are promising energy storage elements for piezoelectric power conversion due to their compact footprint and low loss at frequencies where conventional magnetic components become bulky and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-13 Vakhtang Chulukhadze , Kristi Nguyen , Eric Stolt , Kilian Shambaugh , Weston Braun , Tzu-Hsuan Hsu , Osama Jameel , Juan Rivas-Davila , Ruochen Lu

In an effort to shift the paradigm of power conversion, acoustic resonators pose as compact alternatives for lossy magnetic inductors. Currently, the acoustic resonator's restricted inductive region between its series and parallel…

Applied Physics · Physics 2024-09-25 Vakhtang Chulukhadze , Eric Allen Stolt , Clarissa Daniel , Juan Rivas-Davila , Ruochen Lu

As the demand for compact and efficient power conversion systems increases, piezoelectric power converters have gained attention for their ability to replace bulky magnetic inductors with acoustic resonators, enabling higher power density…

This work reports a 50.74 GHz lithium niobate (LiNbO3) acoustic resonator with a high quality factor (Q) of 237 and an electromechanical coupling (k2) of 5.17% resulting in a figure of merit (FoM, Q x k2) of 12.2. The LiNbO3 resonator…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-07 Jack Kramer , Vakhtang Chulukhadze , Kenny Huynh , Omar Barrera , Michael Liao , Sinwoo Cho , Lezli Matto , Mark S. Goorsky , Ruochen Lu

We present the first lithium tantalate (LT) thickness-extensional (TE) mode bulk acoustic resonators designed for piezoelectric power conversion, showcasing a low temperature coefficient of frequency (TCF) of -13.56 ppm/K. These resonators…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-09-03 Ziqian Yao , Clarissa Daniel , Eric Stolt , Vakhtang Chulukhadze , Juan Rivas Davila , Ruochen Lu

Radio frequency (RF) acoustic resonators have long been used for signal processing and sensing. Devices that integrate acoustic resonators benefit from their slow phase velocity (vp), in the order of 3 to 10 km/s, which allows…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-09-15 Omar Barrera , Jack Kramer , Ryan Tetro , Sinwoo Cho , Vakhtang Chulukhadze , Luca Colombo , Ruochen Lu

This work proposes a double-layer thin-film lithium niobate (LiNbO3) longitudinally excited shear wave resonator with a theoretical electromechanical coupling coefficient exceeding 60%, RaR close to 28%, and no spurious modes. This…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-10-14 Zhen-Hui Qin , Shu-Mao Wu , Chen-Bei Hao , Hua-Yang Chen , Sheng-Nan Liang , Si-Yuan Yu , Yan-Feng Chen

In this work, we demonstrate the first single-crystal aluminum nitride (AlN) wafer-based thickness-extensional (TE) mode bulk acoustic resonator for piezoelectric power conversion. The device exhibits a high series resonance 3-dB quality…

The development of sophisticated integrated photonic circuits demands microresonators that combine exceptional optical confinement with dynamic operational flexibility. Here, we demonstrate a racetrack resonator on the thin-film lithium…

Optics · Physics 2025-12-30 Yuan Ren , Yong Zheng , Ruixue Liu , Boyang Nan , Ziyao Zhuang , Rongbo Wu , Min Wang , Ya Cheng

Lithium niobate is a promising material for developing quantum acoustic technologies due to its strong piezoelectric effect and availability in the form of crystalline thin films of high quality. However, at radio frequencies and cryogenic…

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…

This work reports the first study of periodically poled piezoelectric film (P3F) lithium niobate (LiNbO3) resonators at cryogenic temperatures. We experimentally investigate the temperature dependency of resonant frequencies and quality…

Applied Physics · Physics 2024-03-18 Jack Kramer , Omar Barrera , Sinwoo Cho , Vakhtang Chulukhadze , Tzu-Hsuan Hsu , Ruochen Lu

This paper is the first report of the high-temperature characteristics of a laterally vibrating piezoelectric lithium niobate (LiNbO$_{3}$) MEMS resonator array up to 500{\deg}C in air. After a high-temperature burn-in treatment, device…

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…

Applied Physics · Physics 2022-08-09 Varun Bhardwaj , Kaushik Shukla , Frank Melandsø , Anowarul Habib

This letter presents miniature millimeter wave (mmWave, above 30 GHz) acoustic resonators based on a single-layer thin-film lithium niobate (LN) platform. More specifically, we present high performance third-order antisymmetric (A3) mode…

Applied Physics · Physics 2026-02-13 Vakhtang Chulukhadze , Jack Kramer , Tzu-Hsuan Hsu , Omar Barrera , Ruochen Lu

Lithium Niobate (LN or just niobate) thin-film micro-photonic resonators have promising prospects in many applications including high efficiency electro-optic modulators, optomechanics and nonlinear optics. This paper presents free-standing…

Optics · Physics 2020-12-17 Renyuan Wang , Sunil A. Bhave

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…

High overtone bulk acoustic resonators are essential components in microwave signal processing and emerging quantum technologies; however, conventional designs suffer from limited impedance matching, spurious mode interference, and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-04 Zi-Dong Zhang , Zhen-Hui Qin , Yi-Han He , Yun-Fei Cheng , Hao Yan , Si-Yuan Yu , Ming-Hui Lu , Yan-Feng Chen

Coherent transduction of quantum states from the microwave to the optical domain can play a key role in quantum networking and distributed quantum computing. We present the design of a piezo-optomechanical device formed in a hybrid lithium…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-28 Piero Chiappina , Jash Banker , Srujan Meesala , David Lake , Steven Wood , Oskar Painter

This paper reports the first piezoelectric acoustic filter in periodically poled piezoelectric film (P3F) lithium niobate (LiNbO3) at 23.8 GHz with low insertion loss (IL) of 1.52 dB and 3-dB fractional bandwidth (FBW) of 19.4%. The filter…

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