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This work describes sputtered scandium aluminum nitride (ScAlN) thin-film bulk acoustic resonators (FBAR) at millimeter wave (mmWave) with high quality factor (Q) using platinum (Pt) electrodes. FBARs with combinations of Pt and aluminum…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-31 Sinwoo Cho , Omar Barrera , Pietro Simeoni , Ellie Y. Wang , Jack Kramer , Vakhtang Chulukhadze , Joshua Campbell , Matteo Rinaldi , Ruochen Lu

This work describes sputtered scandium aluminum nitride (ScAlN) thin-film bulk acoustic resonators (FBAR) at 12.5 GHz with high electromechanical coupling (k2) of 9.5% and quality factor (Q) of 208, resulting in a figure of merit (FoM, Qk2)…

This work reports a millimeter wave (mmWave) thin-film bulk acoustic resonator (FBAR) in sputtered scandium aluminum nitride (ScAlN). This paper identifies challenges of frequency scaling sputtered ScAlN into mmWave and proposes a stack and…

This work reports on the modeling, fabrication, and experimental characterization of a 13 GHz 30% Scandium-doped Aluminum Nitride (ScAlN) Overmoded Bulk Acoustic Resonator (OBAR) for high-frequency Radio Frequency (RF) applications, notably…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-24 Walter Gubinelli , Pietro Simeoni , Ryan Tetro , Luca Colombo , Matteo Rinaldi

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

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…

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

A fabrication process is developed to grow c-axis textured aluminum nitride (AlN) films on the sidewall of single crystal silicon (Si) micro-fins to realize fin bulk acoustic wave resonators (FinBAR). FinBARs enable ultra-dense integration…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-07-29 Mehrdad Ramezani , Valeriy Felmetsger , Nicholas Rudawski , Roozbeh Tabrizian

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

Aluminum nitride (AlN)-based thin-film bulk acoustic wave resonators (FBARs) are promising compact platforms for 6G communications and quantum memory hardware, enabled by their integrable acoustic modes with high quality factors. However,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-16 Hemant Gulupalli , Navnil Choudhury , Jiacheng Xie , Yufeng Wu , Huili Grace Xing , Hong X. Tang , Debdeep Jena , Kanad Basu , Wenwen Zhao

Scandium-doped aluminum nitride has recently emerged as a promising material for quantum photonic integrated circuits (PICs) due to its unique combination of strong second-order nonlinearity, ferroelectricity, piezoelectricity, and…

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 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 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

Scandium aluminum nitride (ScAlN) has recently emerged as an attractive material for integrated photonics due to its favorable nonlinear optical properties and compatibility with CMOS fabrication. Despite the promising and versatile…

In this work, we demonstrate a high-performance surface acoustic wave (SAW) delay line based on a Scandium alloyed aluminum nitride (AlScN)-on-sapphire platform operating at 5.9 GHz with an exceptionally high acoustic propagation Q-factor.…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-09-23 Chin-Yu Chang , Xiaolei Tong , Pedram Yousefian , Ella Klein , Xingyu Du , Roy H. Olsson

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…

Spinwave filters using single-crystal yttrium iron garnet are an attractive technology for integration in frequency adjustable or tunable communication systems. However, existing SW devices do not have sufficient bandwidth for future 5G and…

Applied Physics · Physics 2026-02-09 Connor Devitt , Sudhanshu Tiwari , Bill Zivasatienraj , Sunil A. Bhave

We demonstrate a record-high 62.6 GHz solidly mounted acoustic resonator (SMR) incorporating a 67.6 nm scandium aluminum nitride (Sc0.3Al0.7N) piezoelectric layer on a 40 nm buried platinum (Pt) bottom electrode, positioned above an…

In this work, an Aluminum Scandium Nitride (AlScN) on Diamond Sezawa-mode surface acoustic wave (SAW) platform for RF filtering at Ku-band (12-18 GHz) is demonstrated. Thanks to the high acoustic velocity and low-loss diamond substrate, the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-26 Tzu-Hsuan Hsu , Kapil Saha , Jack Kramer , Omar Barrera , Pietro Simoni , Matteo Rinaldi , Ruochen Lu
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