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ArticleACS photonics2026

Sputtered AlN Buffer Layer for Low-Loss Crystalline AlN-on-Sapphire Integrated Photonics.

Samuele Brunetta, Samantha Sbarra, Brandon Shuen Yi Loke, Jean-François Carlin, Nicolas Grandjean, Camille-Sophie Brès, Raphaël Butté

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Samuele BrunettaLaboratory of Advanced Semiconductors for Photonics and Electronics, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne CH-1015, Switzerland.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5153-3630
Samantha SbarraPhotonic Systems Laboratory, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne CH-1015, Switzerland.
Brandon Shuen Yi LokePhotonic Systems Laboratory, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne CH-1015, Switzerland.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0005-5338-6722
Jean-François CarlinLaboratory of Advanced Semiconductors for Photonics and Electronics, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne CH-1015, Switzerland.
Nicolas GrandjeanLaboratory of Advanced Semiconductors for Photonics and Electronics, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne CH-1015, Switzerland.
Camille-Sophie BrèsPhotonic Systems Laboratory, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne CH-1015, Switzerland.
Raphaël ButtéLaboratory of Advanced Semiconductors for Photonics and Electronics, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne CH-1015, Switzerland.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8474-217X

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Abstract

In recent years, aluminum nitride (AlN) has emerged as an attractive material for integrated photonics due to its low propagation losses, wide transparency window, and presence of both second- and third-order optical nonlinearities. However, most of the research led on this platform has primarily focused on applications rather than material optimization, although the latter is equally important to ensure its technological maturity. In this work, we show that voids, which are commonly found in crystalline AlN-on-sapphire epilayers, have a detrimental role in related photonic structures, as they can lead to propagation losses exceeding 30 dB cm

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aluminum nitridemetalorganic vapor-phase epitaxymicroring resonatorphotonic integrated circuitssputtered buffer layervoids

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