Ultra high frequency phononic crystal in silicon carbide

N. Kuo, S. Gong, G. Piazza

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Abstract

This work presents, for the first time, a novel fractal phononic crystal (PC) design in epitaxial cubic silicon carbide (3C-SiC) and experimentally demonstrates acoustic band gaps (ABGs) in the ultra high frequency (UHF) range. The unit cell consists of an air scatterer in a SiC host matrix. Unlike most conventional PC designs, either having circular holes or cylindrical pillars as the scattering sites, the shape of the fractal-like scatterer is formed by a center square hole with four repeating smaller squares at its corners. The fractal nature of this design enables opening phononic band gaps (PBGs) at higher operating frequencies than conventional designs, therefore attaining UHF operations with larger features. The micromachined SiC PBG structure exhibits two frequency stop bands in the 1 GHz range, centered at 990 MHz and 1.17 GHz with 10 % and 15.4 % gap-to-midgap ratio bandwidth, respectively.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publication2011 16th International Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems Conference, TRANSDUCERS'11
Pages2486-2489
Number of pages4
DOIs
StatePublished - 2011
Externally publishedYes
Event2011 16th International Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems Conference, TRANSDUCERS'11 - Beijing, China
Duration: Jun 5 2011Jun 9 2011

Publication series

Name2011 16th International Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems Conference, TRANSDUCERS'11

Other

Other2011 16th International Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems Conference, TRANSDUCERS'11
Country/TerritoryChina
CityBeijing
Period6/5/116/9/11

Keywords

  • Acoustic Band Gap
  • Fractal
  • Phononic Band Gap
  • Phononic Crystal
  • Ultra High Frequency

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Hardware and Architecture
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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