Gallium nitride phononic integrated circuits platform for GHz frequency acoustic wave devices

Mahmut Bicer; Stefano Valle; Jacob G Brown; Martin H H Kuball; Krishna Coimbatore Balram

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Gallium nitride phononic integrated circuits platform for GHz frequency acoustic wave devices

Mahmut Bicer, Stefano Valle, Jacob G Brown, Martin H H Kuball, Krishna Coimbatore Balram

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Strong transverse confinement of high-frequency sound and low-loss routing in on-chip waveguides will bring new degrees of freedom to manipulate GHz frequency acoustic waves, analogous to the change brought forth by silicon integrated photonics to the routing and manipulation of light on a chip. Here, we demonstrate that high frequency (>3 GHz) sound can be efficiently guided in μm-scale gallium nitride (GaN) waveguides and ring resonators by exploiting the strong velocity contrast available in the GaN on silicon carbide (SiC) platform. Given the established use of GaN devices in RF amplifiers, our work opens up the possibility of building RF devices with tight integration between the active and passive components on the same die.

Original language	English
Article number	243502
Number of pages	6
Journal	Applied Physics Letters
Volume	120
Issue number	24
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0082467
Publication status	Published - 15 Jun 2022

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We would like to thank the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (GLIMMER, No. EP/V005286/1; QuPIC, No. EP/ N015126/1) and European Research Council (ERC-StG, SBS3-5, No. 758843) for funding support. J.B. would like to thank the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council for a DTP award (No. EP/T517872/1). The authors would like to thank Manikant Singh, Martin Cryan, Bruce Drinkwater, and John Haine for useful discussions and suggestions.

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Temporal Dynamics of GHz Acoustic Waves in Chipscale Phononic Integrated Circuits
Malik, F., Bicer, M. & Coimbatore Balram, K., 7 Aug 2025, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems. 34, 5, p. 653-662 10 p.
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Guiding, Localizing and IMaging confined GHz acoustic waves in GaN Elastic waveguides and Resonators for monolithically integrated RF front-ends
Coimbatore Balram, K. (Principal Investigator)
1/03/21 → 28/02/24
Project: Research, Parent

Gallium Nitride on Silicon Carbide Platform for Integrated Acoustic Devices: Toward Monolithic Integration of Active/Passive RF Components
Bicer, M. (Author), Coimbatore Balram, K. (Supervisor), 23 Jan 2024
Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

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Gallium nitride phononic integrated circuits platform for GHz frequency acoustic wave devices

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Gallium Nitride on Silicon Carbide Platform for Integrated Acoustic Devices: Toward Monolithic Integration of Active/Passive RF Components

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