Paper: Steering sound on a chip

01 Jan 2024

Abstract

Integrated acoustic circuits leverage guided acoustic waves for applications ranging from radio frequency filters to quantum state transfer, biochemical sensing, and nanomechanical computing. In many applications, it is desirable to have a method for unidirectional acoustic wave emission. In this work, we demonstrate directional emission in an integrated single-mode, on-chip membrane waveguide, demonstrating over 99.9% directional suppression and reconfigurable directionality. This avoids both loss and unwanted crosstalk, allowing the creation of more complex and compact phononic circuits.

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Authors

Tim Hirsch
Nicolas Mauranyapin
Erick Romero
Tina Jin
Glen Harris
Chris Baker
Warwick Bowen

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