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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 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…

Piezoelectric micromachined ultrasonic transducers (PMUTs) are widely utilized in applications that demand mechanical resilience, thermal stability, and compact form factors. Recent efforts have sought to demonstrate that single-crystal…

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

Recently, piezoelectric power conversion has shown great benefits from replacing the bulky and lossy magnetic inductor in a traditional power converter with a piezoelectric resonator due to its compact size and low loss. However, the…

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

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

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 work demonstrates a prototype bi-layer piezoelectric micromachined ultrasonic transducer (PMUT) based on transferred periodically poled piezoelectric film (P3F) X-cut lithium niobate (LN). Opposite in-plane polarizations in the…

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

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…

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…

Periodically poled thin-film lithium niobate (TFLN) crystals are the fundamental building block for highly-efficient quantum light sources and frequency converters. The efficiency of these devices is strongly dependent on the interaction…

Thin-film lithium niobate (TFLN) has played a pivotal role in the advancement of integrated photonics, by supporting a diverse range of applications including nonlinear optics, electro-optics, and piezo-optomechanics. The effective…

Optics · Physics 2025-10-10 Likai Yang , Chunzhen Li , Jiacheng Xie , Hong X. Tang

Thin-film lithium niobate (TFLN) enables extremely high-efficiency second-order nonlinear optical effects due to large nonlinear coefficient d33 and strong optical field localization. Here, we first designed and fabricated a…

Optics · Physics 2023-12-13 Xiao Wu , Zhenzhong Hao , Li Zhang , Di Jia , Rui Ma , Fang Bo , Feng Gao , Guoquan Zhang , Jingjun Xu

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

Periodically poled thin-film lithium niobate (TFLN) waveguides, which enable efficient quadratic nonlinear processes, serve as crucial foundation for classical and quantum signal processing. To expand their application scope, we provide the…

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

Thin-film lithium niobate (TFLN) has emerged as a powerful platform for integrated nonlinear and quantum photonics, owing to its strong optical nonlinearities, wide transparency window, and electro- and piezo-optic properties. However,…

Demonstrating a device that efficiently connects light, motion, and microwaves is an outstanding challenge in classical and quantum photonics. We make significant progress in this direction by demonstrating a photonic crystal resonator on…

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