AlN piezoelectric thin films for energy harvesting and acoustic devices

C Fei, X Liu, B Zhu, D Li, X Yang, Y Yang, Q Zhou - Nano Energy, 2018 - Elsevier
Aluminum nitride (AlN) thin films are widely investigated due to their unique physical
properties and applications in energy harvesting devices, ultrasonic transducers …

AlScN: A III-V semiconductor based ferroelectric

S Fichtner, N Wolff, F Lofink, L Kienle… - Journal of Applied …, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
Ferroelectric switching is unambiguously demonstrated for the first time in a III-V
semiconductor based material: Al 1-x Sc x N—A discovery which could help to satisfy the …

Materials for electronically controllable microactuators

MF Reynolds, MZ Miskin - MRS bulletin, 2024 - Springer
Electronically controllable actuators have shrunk to remarkably small dimensions, thanks to
recent advances in materials science. Currently, multiple classes of actuators can operate at …

Atomic layer deposition of AlN from AlCl3 using NH3 and Ar/NH3 plasma

V Rontu, P Sippola, M Broas, G Ross… - Journal of Vacuum …, 2018 - pubs.aip.org
The atomic layer deposition (ALD) of AlN from AlCl 3 was investigated using a thermal
process with NH 3 and a plasma-enhanced (PE) ALD process with Ar/NH 3 plasma. The …

Uncooled infrared detector based on an aluminum nitride piezoelectric fishnet metasurface

Y Hui, S Kang, Z Qian, M Rinaldi - Journal of …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article reports on the first demonstration of a high resolution (~ 1.9 nW/Hz 1/2 measured
in 200 Hz bandwidth) and fast (~ 5.3 ms) uncooled Infrared (IR) detector based on a high …

Regulating the electrical conductivity of hexagonal boron nitride nanosheets with excellent tribological performance for micro and nano electromechanical system …

J Zhang, L An, B Zhang, CM Wang, Y Yu - Physica E: Low-dimensional …, 2020 - Elsevier
The outstanding electrical insulativity greatly restricts the applications of hexagonal boron
nitride nanosheets (h-BNNSs) in semiconductive or conductive micro and nano …

Effect of AlN seed layer on crystallographic characterization of piezoelectric AlN

KM Howell, W Bashir, A De Pastina… - Journal of Vacuum …, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
Ultrathin aluminum nitride (AlN) films are of great interest for integration into
nanoelectromechanical systems for actuation and sensing. Given the direct relationship …

Terahertz acoustic wave on piezoelectric semiconductor film via large-scale molecular dynamics simulation

R Hikata, K Tsuruta, A Ishikawa… - Japanese Journal of …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
By atomistic simulation, we investigate an acoustic wave at THz frequencies in nanoscale
thin films of aluminum–nitride piezoelectric material. A mode analysis reveals that the …

Design and simulation of piezoelectric MEMS logic gates

P Pandiyan, Y Sujan, SS Raju - Ferroelectrics, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
In this article, MEMS-based logic gates such as OR, AND, NOT, NOR, and NAND gates with
functionalities similar to the electronic digital devices are designed and simulated. The key …

High resolution calorimetric sensing based on Aluminum Nitride MEMS resonant thermal detectors

Z Qian, R Vyas, Y Hui, M Rinaldi - SENSORS, 2014 IEEE, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a high temperature resolution (994.5 μK/Hz 1/2 in a 50 Hz
measurement bandwidth) micro-calorimetric sensor based on a high frequency (134.5 MHz) …