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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

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…

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…

In this work, a 38.7 GHz acoustic wave ladder filter exhibiting insertion loss (IL) of 5.63 dB and 3-dB fractional bandwidth (FBW) of 17.6% is demonstrated, pushing the frequency limits of thin-film piezoelectric acoustic filter technology.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-13 Omar Barrera , Sinwoo Cho , Jack Kramer , Vakhtang Chulukhadze , Joshua Campbell , 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 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

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 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

The availability of thin-film lithium niobate on insulator (LNOI) and advances in processing have led to the emergence of fully integrated LiNbO3 electro-optic devices, including low-voltage, high-speed modulators, electro-optic frequency…

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

The continuous growth of global data traffic over the past three decades, along with advances in disaggregated computing architectures, presents significant challenges for optical transceivers in communication networks and high-performance…

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

In the past decade, lithium niobate (LiNbO3 or LN) photonics, thanks to its heat-free and fast electro-optical modulation, second-order non-linearities and low loss, has been extensively investigated. Despite numerous demonstrations of…

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

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 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

The integrated photonics CMOS-compatible silicon nitride (SiN) platform is praised for its low propagation loss, but is limited by its lack of active functionalities such as a strong Pockels coefficient and intrinsic \c{hi}(2) nonlinearity.…

A novel thin-film LiNbO3 (TFLN) electro-optic modulator is proposed and demonstrated. LiNbO3-silica hybrid waveguide is adopted to maintain low optical loss for an electrode spacing as narrow as 3 {\mu}m, resulting in a record low…

Applied Physics · Physics 2021-03-08 Xuecheng Liu , Bing Xiong , Changzheng Sun , Jian Wang , Zhibiao Hao , Lai Wang , Yanjun Han , Hongtao Li , Jiadong Yu , Yi Luo

Thin-film lithium niobate has shown promise for scalable applications ranging from single-photon sources to high-bandwidth data communication systems. Realization of the next generation high-performance classical and quantum devices,…

Periodically poled thin-film lithium niobate (TFLN) waveguides have emerged as a leading platform for highly efficient frequency conversion in the near-infrared. However, the commonly used silica bottom-cladding results in high absorption…

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