Design of tunable GHz-frequency optomechanical crystal resonators

Hannes Pfeifer, Taofiq Paraiso, Leyun Zang +1

We present a silicon optomechanical nanobeam design with a dynamically tunable acoustic mode at 10.2 GHz. The resonance frequency can be shifted by 90 kHz/V^2 with an on-chip capac…