arXiv · 2505.23100
Integrated phononic waveguide on thin-film lithium niobate on diamond
Abstract
We demonstrate wavelength-scale phononic waveguides formed by transfer-printed thin-film lithium niobate (LN) on bulk diamond (LNOD), a material stack that combines the strong piezoelectricity of LN with the high acoustic velocity and color-center compatibility of diamond. We characterize a delay line based on a 100 micron long phononic waveguide at room and cryogenic temperatures. The total insertion loss through the device at 4 kelvin is -5.8 dB, corresponding to a >50% transducer efficiency, at a frequency of 2.8 gigahertz. Our work represents a step towards phonon-mediated hybrid quantum systems consisting of strain-sensitive color centers in diamond.
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Sultan Malik, Felix M. Mayor, Wentao Jiang, Hyunseok Oh, Carl Padgett, Viraj Dharod, Jayameenakshi Venkatraman, Ania C. Bleszynski Jayich, Amir H. Safavi-Naeini. 2025-05-29. Integrated phononic waveguide on thin-film lithium niobate on diamond. https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.23100
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