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9 papers

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

Enhanced Permittivity in Wurtzite ScAlN through Nanoscale Sc Clustering

James L Hart, Andrew C Lang, Matthew T Hardy +8

ScN alloyed AlN (ScxAl1-xN, ScAlN) is a wurtzite semiconductor with attractive ferroelectric, dielectric, piezoelectric, and optical properties. Here, we show that ScAlN films (wit…

physics.app-ph2025

Toward Enhanced Inertial Sensing via Dynamically Soft Topological States in Piezoelectric Microacoustic Metamaterials

Onurcan Kaya, Niccolo Scalise Pantuso, Marco Galli +10

In recent decades, microelectromechanical systems (MEMS)-based gyroscopes have been employed to meet positioning and navigation demands of a plethora of commercially available devi…

physics.ins-det2025

Plasmonically Enhanced Flexural-Mode AlScN Nanoplate Resonator as Uncooled and Ultrafast IR Detector with High Responsivity

Aurelio Venditti, Walter Gubinelli, Enise F. Altin +4

This letter introduces a novel class of miniaturized, uncooled, and ultra-fast infrared (IR) resonant thermal detectors (RTDs) based on 30%-doped Aluminum Scandium Nitride (AlScN)…

eess.SY2025

Power Handling Improvement in Cross-Sectional Lame Mode Resonators Operating in the Ku-band

Luca Spagnuolo, Gabriel Giribaldi, Filippo Perli +3

This study presents power handling improvements in cross-sectional Lame-Mode Resonators (CLMRs) designed for operation in the Ku-band. Previously fabricated CLMR devices failed at…

eess.SY2025

Laterally Excited Bulk Acoustic Wave (LBAW) X-Cut Lithium Niobate Resonators

Walter Gubinelli, Ryan Tetro, Pietro Simeoni +2

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…

physics.app-ph2025

High-performance solidly mounted bidimensional mode resonators (S2MRs) operating around 16 GHz

Luca Spagnuolo, Luca Colombo, Kapil Saha +3

This paper reports on Solidly-Mounted Bidimensional Mode Resonators (S2MRs) utilizing 30% Scandium-doped Aluminum Nitride on Silicon Carbide, operating near 16 GHz. Experimental re…