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Phononic nanodevices offer a promising route toward quantum technologies, as phonons combine strong confinement within matter with broad coupling capabilities to various quantum systems. In particular, the piezoelectric response of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-21 Michele Diego , Hong Qiao , Byunggi Kim , Minseok Ryu , Shiheng Li , Gustav Andersson , Masahiro Nomura , Andrew N. Cleland

We investigate the performance of microwave-frequency phononic crystal resonators fabricated on thin-film lithium niobate for integration with superconducting quantum circuits. For different design geometries at millikelvin temperatures, we…

Lithium niobate (LN) based devices are widely used in integrated and nonlinear optics. This material is robust and resistive to high temperatures, which makes the LN-based devices table, but challenging to fabricate. In this work we report…

Materials imperfections in Nniobium based superconducting quantum circuits, in particular, two-level-system (TLS) defects, are a major source of decoherence, ultimately limiting the performance of quantum computation and sensing. Thus,…

In this work, we investigate the frequency scaling of shear-horizontal (S.H.) surface acoustic wave (SAW) resonators based on a lithium niobate on insulator (LNOI) substrate into the centimeter bands for 6G wireless systems. Prototyped…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-28 Tzu-Hsuan Hsu , Joshua Campbell , Jack Kramer , Sinwoo Cho , Zhi-Qiang Lee , Ming-Huang Li , Ruochen Lu

Thin-film lithium niobate (TFLN) has emerged as a versatile integrated photonics platform, combining strong electro-optic and nonlinear effects. Among TFLN devices, ring resonators play a central role in filtering, modulation, and nonlinear…

Optics · Physics 2026-04-03 Xinrui Zhu , Hana K. Warner , Yunxiang Song , Donald Witt , Marko Loncar

We present measurements of the temperature-dependent frequency shift of five niobium superconducting coplanar waveguide microresonators with center strip widths ranging from 3 $\mu$m to 50 $\mu$m, taken at temperatures in the range 100-800…

Frequency instabilities are a major source of errors in quantum devices. This study investigates frequency fluctuations in a surface acoustic wave (SAW) resonator, where reflection coefficients of 14 SAW modes are measured simultaneously…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-11 Nuttamas Tubsrinuan , Jared H. Cole , Per Delsing , Gustav Andersson

In this work, we demonstrate a C-band shear-horizontal surface acoustic wave (SH-SAW) resonator with high electromechanical coupling (kt2) of 22% and a quality factor (Q) of 565 based on a thin-film lithium niobate (LN) on silicon carbide…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-06 Tzu-Hsuan Hsu , Joshua Campbell , Jack Kramer , Sinwoo Cho , Ming-Huang Li , Ruochen Lu

We demonstrate a three-dimensional fin lithium niobate (FinLN) acoustic resonator fabricated from thick lithium niobate on insulator using deep ion etching and sidewall electrode patterning. The FinLN geometry enables strong…

Applied Physics · Physics 2026-01-27 Haorui Ni , Sunil Bhave

Microscopic two-level system (TLS) defects at dielectric surfaces and interfaces are among the dominant sources of loss in superconducting quantum circuits, and their properties have been extensively probed using superconducting resonators…

In this work, Laterally excited Bulk Acoustic Wave (LBAW) resonators on X-cut Lithium Niobate (LiNbO3) and, for the first time their higher-order overtones (LOBAW) are demonstrated by embedding interdigitated electrodes recessed into the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-06 Walter Gubinelli , Ryan Tetro , Pietro Simeoni , Luca Colombo , Matteo Rinaldi

We present microwave-frequency NbTiN resonators on silicon, systematically achieving internal quality factors above 1 M in the quantum regime. We use two techniques to reduce losses associated with two-level systems: an additional substrate…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-07-15 A. Bruno , G. de Lange , S. Asaad , K. L. van der Enden , N. K. Langford , L. DiCarlo

Superconducting quantum computing architectures comprise resonators and qubits that experience energy loss due to two-level systems (TLS) in bulk and interfacial dielectrics. Understanding these losses is critical to improving performance…

In the last decades, Bulk-Acoustic-Wave (BAW) filters have been essential components of 1G-to-4G radios. These devices rely on the high electromechanical coupling coefficient (kt2~7%), attained by Aluminum Nitride (AlN)…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-02 Xuanyi Zhao , Luca Colombo , Cristian Cassella

Bulk Acoustic Wave (BAW) filters find applications in radio frequency (RF) communication systems for Wi-Fi, 3G, 4G, and 5G networks. In the beyond-5G (potential 6G) era, high frequency bands (>8 GHz) are expected to require resonators with…

Lamb wave resonators (LWRs) operating at ultralow temperatures serve as promising acoustic platforms for implementing microwave-optical transduction and radio frequency (RF) front-ends in aerospace communications because of the exceptional…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-10-14 Wenbing Jiang , Xuankai Xu , Jiazhen Pan , Hancong Sun , Yu Guo , Huabing Wang , Libing Zhou , Tao Wu

In this work, we have successfully engineered and examined suspended laterally vibrating resonators (LVRs) on a lithium niobate thin film on lithium niobate carrier wafer (LN-on-LN) platform, powered by aluminum interdigital transducers…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-07-10 Yiyang Feng , Sen Dai , Sunil A. Bhave

The recent realization of millisecond-scale coherence with tantalum-on-silicon transmon qubits showed that depositing the Al/AlOx/Al Josephson junction in a high purity, ultrahigh vacuum environment was critical for achieving…

Superconducting resonators play a crucial role in the development of quantum technologies such as quantum computing or high performance detectors. Yet, one of their main limitations regarding to noise and sensitivity is the interaction with…