Publications de Soumya Yandrapalli

Toward Band n78 Shear Bulk Acoustic Resonators Using Crystalline Y-Cut Lithium Niobate Films With Spurious Suppression

Victor Plessky, Luis Guillermo Villanueva Torrijo, Soumya Yandrapalli

This work presents the study of suspended Y-cut Lithium Niobate shear bulk acoustic resonators for wide band filter applications in the frequency range of 3.5-4.5GHz. The resonators consist of a Lithium Niobate film with Aluminum top interdigitated electro ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2023

Study of Thin Film LiNbO3 Laterally Excited Bulk Acoustic Resonators

Victor Plessky, Luis Guillermo Villanueva Torrijo, Hüseyin Baris Atakan, Soumya Yandrapalli

This work presents an in-depth study of simulation and measurement results of laterally excited shear bulk acoustic resonators (XBAR) in Lithium Niobate, at 5 GHz with high electromechanical coupling factor (k(t)(2)) as high as 25%, and with impedances at ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2022

Development of Thin Film Lithium Niobate Shear Bulk Acoustic Wave Resonators

Soumya Yandrapalli

RF MEMS piezoelectric acoustic resonators are the essential building blocks for RF filters used in RF front-end modules for wireless mobile communication due to their compact size in the MHz-GHz frequency range, high Quality factors and large relative band ...

EPFL2022

Resonance Frequency Dependence Of A1 Lamb Mode On The Pitch Of The Electrode Structure

Victor Plessky, Luis Guillermo Villanueva Torrijo, Seniz Esra Küçük, Soumya Yandrapalli

Dispersion of A1 Lamb mode near onset frequency is discussed. This mode is close to that used in XBAR devices. The typically used approximation is based on elliptic form of slowness curve and ignoring mode interaction is not valid for widely used materials ...

IEEE2021

Thin Film Devices For 5G Communications

Luis Guillermo Villanueva Torrijo, Damien Maillard, Seniz Esra Küçük, Soumya Yandrapalli, Muhammad Faizan, Marco Liffredo

Piezoelectric-based resonators are some of the most used devices in the world. Invisible to most people, they constitute key elements for your mobile phone communications. With the advent of 50, the current technologies for piezoelectric resonators need to ...

IEEE2021

Towards a N77 Electroacoustic Filter Using Thin Films of Crystalline Y-cut Lithium Niobate

Victor Plessky, Luis Guillermo Villanueva Torrijo, Soumya Yandrapalli

This paper presents the use of a novel type of resonators made of a thin membrane of Y-cut Lithium Niobate that has an array of interdigitated electrodes on the top, and a floating metal on the bottom. Each electrode gives rise to a quasi-independent reson ...

IEEE2021

A formula for the admittance of laterally excited bulk wave resonators (XBARs)

Victor Plessky, Luis Guillermo Villanueva Torrijo, Soumya Yandrapalli

The recently invented laterally excited bulk wave resonators (XBARs) demonstrate outstanding parameters suitable for the design of low loss filters for the fifth generation of mobile phones. The operation of XBARs can be interpreted as an excitation of ant ...

WILEY2021

FABRICATION AND ANALYSIS OF THIN FILM LITHUM NIOBATE RESONATORS FOR 5GHz FREQUENCY AND LARGE k(t)(2) APPLICATIONS

Victor Plessky, Luis Guillermo Villanueva Torrijo, Seniz Esra Küçük, Soumya Yandrapalli

This work presents the fabrication and analysis of suspended thin film Lithium Niobate resonators. The yield of the new fabrication process presented below is >90% showing devices with high k(t)(2) of 28% resonators at 5GHz, making them suitable for high f ...

IEEE2021

Study on the Performances of AlScN based SAW/BAW Hybrid Resonators A Parametric Analysis of Acoustic Wave Resonators with Large Figure of Merit

Luis Guillermo Villanueva Torrijo, Guilain Lionel Germain Lang, Soumya Yandrapalli

In this study, we analyze a 3rd type of FBAR's fundamental mode by finite element method. We show the importance of the substrate's wave velocity and conductivity on the electromechanical coupling efficiency. Then we demonstrate that etching traditional SA ...

IEEE2021

Attenuation of Lamb Modes and SH Waves near cut-off Frequencies

Victor Plessky, Soumya Yandrapalli

Near cut-off frequencies, the shear horizontal (SH) and Lamb modes in a platelet are created by a bulk acoustic wave bouncing up and down between the platelet sides in an almost vertical direction. The small inclination angle corresponds to slow drift of e ...

IEEE2020

Comb Transducer for Generation of SH0 Mode in Crystalline Piezoelectric Membrane

Victor Plessky, Soumya Yandrapalli

It is shown that the comb IDT (CT) can efficiently excite SH0 mode in piezoelectric membrane of suitable orientation. The transducer has pitch equal to the wavelength (p=lambda) and the electrode size is half of the wavelength. As compared to conventional ...

IEEE2020

Crystalline Y-cut Lithium Niobate Layers for the Bulk Acoustic Wave Resonator (YBAR)

Soumya Yandrapalli

The film bulk-acoustic wave resonator (FBAR) technology based on aluminum nitride (AlN) thin films has proven very successful, but it is limited by the relatively low piezoelectric coupling of AlN. Recently, FBAR resonators and laterally excited standing w ...

IEEE2020

5 GHz Band n79 wideband microacoustic filter using thin lithium niobate membrane

Victor Plessky, Luis Guillermo Villanueva Torrijo, Soumya Yandrapalli, Bruno Garcia

Microacoustic resonators made on suspended continuous membranes of LiNbO3 were recently shown to have very strong coupling and low losses at >= 5 GHz, suitable for high-performance filter design. Employing these simple resonator structures, the authors hav ...

2019

5 GHz laterally-excited bulk-wave resonators (XBARs) based on thin platelets of lithium niobate

Victor Plessky, Luis Guillermo Villanueva Torrijo, Soumya Yandrapalli

In a free-standing 400-nm-thick platelet of crystalline ZY-LiNbO3, narrow electrodes (500 nm) placed periodically with a pitch of a few microns can eXcite standing shear-wave bulk acoustic resonances (XBARs), by utilising lateral electric fields oriented p ...

2019

Laterally excited bulk wave resonators (XBARs) based on thin Lithium Niobate platelet for 5GHz and 13 GHz filters

Victor Plessky, Luis Guillermo Villanueva Torrijo, Annalisa De Pastina, Soumya Yandrapalli, Muhammad Faizan

In a free ZY-LiNbO3 400nm thick platelet, narrow electrodes (500nm wide) placed periodically with a pitch of few micrometers can eXcite standing Bulk Acoustic shear wave Resonances (XBARs), by means of lateral electric field parallel to crystalline Y- axis ...

IEEE2019

Analysis of XBAR resonance and higher order spurious modes

Victor Plessky, Luis Guillermo Villanueva Torrijo, Soumya Yandrapalli

A suspended 400nm thin mono-crystalline ZY cut Lithium Niobate (LN) membrane with narrow interdigital electrodes (IDEs) on top having a pitch of the order of few microns excites standing shear bulk acoustic wave resonance (XBAR) within the membrane through ...

IEEE2019

Fabrication Of Lithium Niobate Bulk Acoustic Resonator For 5G Filters

Victor Plessky, Luis Guillermo Villanueva Torrijo, Annalisa De Pastina, Soumya Yandrapalli, Muhammad Faizan

This work presents the fabrication of a MEMS resonant device which addresses the need for high quality and miniaturized RF filters in the 3-6 GHz range for 5th generation (5G) mobile networks. The 4-mask fabrication process is based on the definition of in ...

IEEE2019

Three-Dimensional Nano-Acoustic Bragg Reflectors for CMOS Embedded NEMS

David Ruffieux, Luis Guillermo Villanueva Torrijo, Soumya Yandrapalli

Integration of CMOS electronic circuits and electromechanical resonators has been pursued for a long time by many different research groups and even foundries. This would improve the overall performance of electromechanical oscillators and sensors. However ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2017