AIP Advances (Jul 2020)

The thin film bulk acoustic wave resonator based on single-crystalline 43○Y-cut lithium niobate thin films

  • Xiaoyuan Bai,
  • Yao Shuai,
  • Lu Lv,
  • Ying Xing,
  • Jiaoling Zhao,
  • Wenbo Luo,
  • Chuangui Wu,
  • Tao Yang,
  • Wanli Zhang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5143550
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 7
pp. 075002 – 075002-5

Abstract

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43°Y-cut lithium niobate (LiNbO3, LN) single-crystalline thin films, which are integrated with two types of Bragg reflectors of W/SiO2 and Mo/SiO2, respectively, are fabricated by means of the crystal-ion-slicing technique. Crack-free LN thin films are obtained when the Mo/SiO2 reflector is adopted, while crumples take place when the LN thin film is combined with W/SiO2. Moreover, solidly-mounted-type thin film bulk acoustic wave resonators (LN-SMRs) based on the single-crystalline LN film and Bragg reflector layers of Mo/SiO2 are prepared and characterized. The results indicate that the LN thin film combined with the Mo/SiO2 reflector has good thin film quality, and keff2 of the LN-SMR reaches 20%.