Thin-film scandium aluminum nitride bulk acoustic resonator with high Q of 208 and K2 of 9.5% at 12.5 GHz

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Main Authors: Cho, Sinwoo, Wang, Yinan, Kwon, Eugene, Matto, Lezli, Barrera, Omar, Liao, Michael, Kramer, Jack, Hsu, Tzu-Hsuan, Chulukhadze, Vakhtang, Anderson, Ian, Goorksy, Mark, Lu, Ruochen
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author Cho, Sinwoo
Wang, Yinan
Kwon, Eugene
Matto, Lezli
Barrera, Omar
Liao, Michael
Kramer, Jack
Hsu, Tzu-Hsuan
Chulukhadze, Vakhtang
Anderson, Ian
Goorksy, Mark
Lu, Ruochen
author_facet Cho, Sinwoo
Wang, Yinan
Kwon, Eugene
Matto, Lezli
Barrera, Omar
Liao, Michael
Kramer, Jack
Hsu, Tzu-Hsuan
Chulukhadze, Vakhtang
Anderson, Ian
Goorksy, Mark
Lu, Ruochen
contents 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) of 19.8. ScAlN resonators employ a stack of 90 nm thick 20% Sc doping ScAlN piezoelectric film on the floating bottom 38 nm thick platinum (Pt) electrode to achieve low losses and high coupling toward centimeter wave (cmWave) frequency band operation. Three fabricated and FBARs are reported, show promising prospects of ScAlN-Pt stack towards cmWave front-end filters.
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spellingShingle Thin-film scandium aluminum nitride bulk acoustic resonator with high Q of 208 and K2 of 9.5% at 12.5 GHz
Cho, Sinwoo
Wang, Yinan
Kwon, Eugene
Matto, Lezli
Barrera, Omar
Liao, Michael
Kramer, Jack
Hsu, Tzu-Hsuan
Chulukhadze, Vakhtang
Anderson, Ian
Goorksy, Mark
Lu, Ruochen
Applied Physics
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) of 19.8. ScAlN resonators employ a stack of 90 nm thick 20% Sc doping ScAlN piezoelectric film on the floating bottom 38 nm thick platinum (Pt) electrode to achieve low losses and high coupling toward centimeter wave (cmWave) frequency band operation. Three fabricated and FBARs are reported, show promising prospects of ScAlN-Pt stack towards cmWave front-end filters.
title Thin-film scandium aluminum nitride bulk acoustic resonator with high Q of 208 and K2 of 9.5% at 12.5 GHz
topic Applied Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.20014