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This work reports an acoustic filter at 23.5 GHz with a low insertion loss (IL) of 2.38 dB and a 3-dB fractional bandwidth (FBW) of 18.2%, significantly surpassing the state-of-the-art. The device leverages electrically coupled acoustic…

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

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…

Acoustic filters are preferred front-end solutions at sub-6 GHz due to their superior frequency selectivity compared to electromagnetic (EM) counterparts. With the ongoing development of 5G and the evolution toward 6G, there is a growing…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-05 Omar Barrera , Sinwoo Cho , Jack Kramer , Vakhtang Chulukhadze , Tzu-Hsuan Hsu , Ruochen Lu

This article presents an approach to control the operating frequency and fractional bandwidth (FBW) of miniature acoustic filters in thin-film lithium niobate (TFLN). More specifically, we used first-order antisymmetric (A1) mode…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-14 Taran Anusorn , Omar Barrera , Jack Kramer , Ian Anderson , Ziqian Yao , Vakhtang Chulukhadze , Ruochen Lu

This paper presents significant frequency scaling of acoustic filter technology to 50 GHz. This achievement is enabled by the P3F LiNbO3 multilayer stack, in which piezoelectric thin-films of alternating orientations are transferred in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-02 Omar Barrera , Jack Kramer , Lezli Matto , Vakhtang Chulukhadze , Sinwoo Cho , Michael Liao , Mark S. Goorsky , Ruochen Lu

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

This paper reports the first high-performance acoustic filters toward millimeter wave (mmWave) bands using transferred single-crystal thin film lithium niobate (LiNbO3). By transferring LiNbO3 on the top of silicon (Si) and sapphire (Al2O3)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-31 Omar Barrera , Sinwoo Cho , Kenny Hyunh , Jack Kramer , Michael Liao , Vakhtang Chulukhadze , Lezli Matto , Mark S. Goorsky , Ruochen Lu

Compact, high-performance components in millimeter-wave (mmWave) communication systems demand new acoustic filter technology at increasingly higher frequencies. Among various promising mmWave platforms, first-order antisymmetric (A1) mode…

Data rates and volume for mobile communication are ever-increasing with the growing number of users and connected devices. With the deployment of 5G and 6G on the horizon, wireless communication is advancing to higher frequencies and larger…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-07-09 Silvan Stettler , Luis Guillermo Villanueva

This paper presents a new class of micro-electro-mechanical system (MEMS) C-band filters for 5G front-ends. The filter is comprised of resonators based on the first-order asymmetric Lamb wave (A1) mode in thin film lithium niobate. Two…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-17 Yansong Yang , Ruochen Lu , Liuqing Gao , Songbin Gong

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 on insulator emerges as a promising platform for integrated microwave photonics because of its capability of ultralow-loss guidance and high-efficiency modulation of light. Chip-level integration of microwave filters is…

Optics · Physics 2022-09-19 Yue Yu , Xiankai Sun

Monolithic integration of multiband (1.4~ 6.0 GHz) RF acoustic devices were successfully demonstrated within the same process flow by using the lithium niobate (LN) thin film on silicon carbide (LNOSiC) substrate. A novel surface mode with…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-22 Shibin Zhang , Hongyan Zhou , Pengcheng Zheng , Jinbo Wu , Liping Zhang , Zhongxu Li , Kai Huang , Xin Ou , Xi Wang

We present the first group of acoustic delay lines (ADLs) at 5 GHz, using the first-order antisymmetric (A1) mode in Z-cut lithium niobate thin films. The demonstrated ADLs significantly surpass the operation frequency of the previous works…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-18 Ruochen Lu , Yansong Yang , Ming-Huang Li , Michael Breen , Songbin Gong

Thin-film lithium niobate (TFLN) has emerged as a leading platform for large-scale programmable photonic circuits for quantum and classical applications. As circuits scale in complexity, low-loss routing of broadband pump and signal fields…

This work presents the demonstration of lattice filters based on laterally excited bulk acoustic resonators (XBARs). Two filter implementations, namely direct lattice and layout-balanced lattice topologies, are designed and fabricated in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-17 Taran Anusorn , Byeongjin Kim , Ian Anderson , Ziqian Yao , Ruochen Lu

This work presents a new class of micro-electro-mechanical system (MEMS) resonators toward Ka band (26.5-40GHz) for fifth-generation (5G) wireless communication. Resonant frequencies of 21.4 and 29.9 GHz have been achieved using the fifth…

Applied Physics · Physics 2019-09-17 Yansong Yang , Ruochen Lu , Tomas Manzaneque , Songbin Gong

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

This paper reports an 11.7 GHz compact 50 ohm ladder filter based on single layer Scandium Aluminum Nitride (ScAlN) film bulk acoustic resonators (FBARs) with platinum (Pt) electrodes, and uses it as a quantitative case study of the limits…

Shear-horizontal surface acoustic wave (SH-SAW) filters have shown strong potential for low-loss, compact, GHz-frequency RF front ends. In this work, we demonstrate a high-performance SH-SAW filter design at 4.35 GHz utilizing 42{\deg}Y-cut…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-20 Taran Anusorn , Tzu-Hsuan Hsu , Yuchen Ma , Ruochen Lu
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