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    High-temperature electromechanical loss in piezoelectric langasite and catangasite crystals
    (Melville, NY : American Inst. of Physics, 2021) Suhak, Yuriy; Fritze, Holger; Sotnikov, Andrei; Schmidt, Hagen; Johnson, Ward L.
    Temperature-dependent acoustic loss Q−1 is studied in partially disordered langasite (LGS, La3Ga5SiO14) and ordered catangasite (CTGS, Ca3TaGa3Si2O14) crystals and compared with previously reported CTGS and langatate (LGT, La3Ga5.5Ta0.5O14) data. Two independent techniques, a contactless tone-burst excitation technique and contacting resonant piezoelectric spectroscopy, are used in this study. Contributions to the measured Q−1(T) are determined through fitting to physics-based functions, and the extracted fit parameters, including the activation energies of the processes, are discussed. It is shown that losses in LGS and CTGS are caused by a superposition of several mechanisms, including intrinsic phonon–phonon loss, point-defect relaxations, and conductivity-related relaxations.
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    Electromechanical losses in carbon- and oxygen-containing bulk AlN single crystals
    (Amsterdam [u.a.] : Elsevier Science, 2019) Kogut, Iurii; Hartmann, Carsten; Gamov, Ivan; Suhak, Yuriy; Schulz, Michal; Schröder, Sebastian; Wollweber, Jürgen; Dittmar, Andrea; Irmscher, Klaus; Straubinger, Thomas; Bickermann, Matthias; Fritze, Holger
    Bulk single-crystalline aluminum nitride (AlN) is potentially a key component for low-loss high-temperature piezoelectric devices. However, the incorporation of electrically active impurities and defects during growth of AlN may adversely affect the performance of piezoelectric resonators especially at high temperatures. The electrical conductivity and electromechanical losses in bulk AlN single crystals are analyzed in the temperature range of 300–1200 K with respect to various contents of growth-related impurities in them. For AlN with [O]/[C] ≤ 1, an increase of electrical conductivity due to thermal activation of charge carriers in the temperature range of 850–1200 K has been observed and was determined to be a major contribution to electromechanical losses Q−1 rising up to maximum values of about 10−3 at 1200 K. As the oxygen content in AlN increased, the magnitude and the activation energy of high-temperature electrical conductivity increased. In oxygen-dominated AlN, two major thermally activated contributions to electromechanical losses were observed, namely, the anelastic relaxations of point defects at temperatures of 400–800 K and electrical conductivity at T > 800 K.