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  • Title: Investigation of a Solid-State Tuning Behavior in Lithium Niobate.
    Author: Branch DW, Jensen DS, Nordquist CD, Siddiqui A, Douglas JK, Eichenfield M, Friedmann TA.
    Journal: IEEE Trans Ultrason Ferroelectr Freq Control; 2020 Feb; 67(2):365-373. PubMed ID: 31567077.
    Abstract:
    Electric field-based frequency tuning of acoustic resonators at the material level may provide an enabling technology for building complex tunable filters. Tunable acoustic resonators were fabricated in thin plates (h/ λ  ∼  0.05 ) of X-cut lithium niobate (LiNbO3) (90°, 90°, ψ = 170° ). LiNbO3 is known for its large electromechanical coupling ( K 2 ) for the shear and symmetric Lamb modes (SH0: K 2 = 40 %, S0: K 2 = 30 %) in thin plates and, thus, applicability for low-insertion loss and wideband filter applications. We demonstrate the effect of a dc bias in X-cut LiNbO3 to shift the resonant frequency by ~0.4% through direct tuning of the resonator material. A nonlinear acoustic computation predicted 0.36% tuning, which was in excellent agreement with the tuning measurement. For X-cut, we predicted electrical tuning of the S0 mode up to 1.6% and for Y-cut the electrical tuning of the SH0 and S0 modes was up to 7.0% with K 2 = 27.1 %. The mechanism is based on the nonlinearities that exist in the piezoelectric properties of LiNbO3. The X-cut SH0 mode resonators were centered near 335 MHz and achieved a frequency tuning of 6 kHz/V through the application of a dc bias.
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