AlN/3C-SiC composite plate enabling high-frequency and high-Q micromechanical resonators.

Lin, Chih-Ming; Chen, Yung-Yu; Felmetsger, Valery V; Senesky, Debbie G; Pisano, Albert P · Adv Mater · 2012

basic_science · Level V

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Abstract

An AlN/3C-SiC composite layer enables the third-order quasi-symmetric (QS(3)) Lamb wave mode with a high quality factor (Q) characteristic and an ultra-high phase velocity up to 32395 ms(-1). A Lamb wave resonator utilizing the QS(3) mode exhibits a low motional impedance of 91 Ω and a high Q of 5510 at a series resonance frequency (f(s)) of 2.92 GHz, resulting in the highest f(s)·Q product of 1.61 × 10(13) Hz among the suspended piezoelectric thin film resonators reported to date.

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