Millisecond phonon lifetimes in piezoelectric nanomechanical resonators.

Oliver A Hitchcock, Matthew P Maksymowych, Kaveh Pezeshki, Takuma Makihara, Erik Szakiel, Chou-Wei Kiang, Daniel Rugar, Amir H Safavi-Naeini

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Oliver A Hitchcock *Department of Applied Physics and Ginzton Laboratory, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0002-6831-0614

Matthew P Maksymowych *Department of Applied Physics and Ginzton Laboratory, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3579-8791

Kaveh Pezeshki *Department of Applied Physics and Ginzton Laboratory, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4363-185X

Takuma MakiharaDepartment of Applied Physics and Ginzton Laboratory, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.

Erik SzakielDepartment of Applied Physics and Ginzton Laboratory, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.

Chou-Wei KiangDepartment of Applied Physics and Ginzton Laboratory, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.

Daniel RugarDepartment of Applied Physics and Ginzton Laboratory, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2826-2638

Amir H Safavi-NaeiniDepartment of Applied Physics and Ginzton Laboratory, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA. safavi@stanford.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6176-1274

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Next-generation spatial -omics: High-throughput, single-molecule proteomic imaging with subcellular resolutionRF1MH136394 · NIMH · CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · PI ROUKES, MICHAEL L · 2025 to 2025

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Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation (Gordon E. and Betty I. Moore Foundation) Grant 12214National Science Foundation (NSF) DGE-2146755National Science Foundation (NSF) ECCS-2026822United States Department of Defense | United States Air Force | AFMC | Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AF Office of Scientific Research) FA9550-23-1-0338United States Department of Defense | United States Air Force | AFMC | Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AF Office of Scientific Research) FA9550-23-F-001United States Department of Defense | United States Navy | Office of Naval Research (ONR) FA9550-23-1-0338U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) DE-AC02-76SF00515U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | National Institutes of Health (NIH) RF1MH136394

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Abstract

Piezoelectric nanomechanical resonators operating at gigahertz frequencies are a promising platform for quantum information processing and precision sensing, but phonon lifetimes have been limited to the microsecond range, widely attributed to the higher intrinsic loss of piezoelectric materials. Here we show that this limitation is not fundamental. Using a fabrication process informed by recent studies of defect-mediated loss in lithium niobate, we combine the chemical restoration of ion-milled surfaces with a shadow-mask metallization process to produce lithium niobate phononic crystal resonators with inferred internal phonon lifetimes of up to 21 ms at 3.6 GHz, corresponding to quality factors exceeding 4 × 10

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PMID42888263

DOI10.1063/5.0125122

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