Nanomechanical crystalline AlN resonators with high quality factors for quantum optoelectromechanics

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2402.12196v1
• Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2024 15:00:51 GMT
• Title: Nanomechanical crystalline AlN resonators with high quality factors for quantum optoelectromechanics
• Authors: Anastasiia Ciers, Alexander Jung, Joachim Ciers, Laurentius Radit Nindito, Hannes Pfeifer, Armin Dadgar, Andre Strittmatter, and Witlef Wieczorek
• Abstract summary: Tensile strain in the material enables the use of dissipation dilution and strain engineering techniques, which increase the mechanical quality factor. We demonstrate nanomechanical resonators that exploit dissipation dilution and strain engineering to reach a $Q_m times f_m$-product approaching $1013$ Hz at room temperature.
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• Abstract: High-$Q_m$ mechanical resonators are crucial for applications where low noise and long coherence time are required, as mirror suspensions, quantum cavity optomechanical devices, or nanomechanical sensors. Tensile strain in the material enables the use of dissipation dilution and strain engineering techniques, which increase the mechanical quality factor. These techniques have been employed for high-$Q_m$ mechanical resonators made from amorphous materials and, recently, from crystalline materials such as InGaP, SiC, and Si. A strained crystalline film exhibiting substantial piezoelectricity expands the capability of high-$Q_m$ nanomechanical resonators to directly utilize electronic degrees of freedom. In this work we realize nanomechanical resonators with $Q_m$ up to $2.9\times 10^{7}$ made from tensile-strained 290 nm-thick AlN, which is an epitaxially-grown crystalline material offering strong piezoelectricity. We demonstrate nanomechanical resonators that exploit dissipation dilution and strain engineering to reach a $Q_m \times f_m$-product approaching $10^{13}$ Hz at room temperature. We realize a novel resonator geometry, triangline, whose shape follows the Al-N bonds and offers a central pad that we pattern with a photonic crystal. This allows us to reach an optical reflectivity above 80% for efficient coupling to out-of-plane light. The presented results pave the way for quantum optoelectromechanical devices at room temperature based on tensile-strained AlN.

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