Surface phonon cavities that are homogenous in both mechanical and dielectric properties are reported. The cavities are formed by the placement of a defect of a single domain within periodic domain inversion of single crystal piezoelectric lithium niobate that exhibits surface phononic bandgap through the phonon-polariton coupling. Surface cavity resonances are observed within the bandgap, which manifest in entrapment of phonon-polariton within the defect. In addition to demonstrating that the observed resonances are non-radiative and decoupled to bulk radiation, which is critical for high Q cavities, it is also shown the possibility to tune the surface cavity resonance spectra simply by varying the defect width. Such an ability to excite surface cavity resonance that is non-radiative with simultaneous localization of the electric field together with the advantage of a cavity that is physically formed from a completely monolithic and uniform material offers unique opportunities for widespread applications for example in actuation, detection, and phonon lasing that can be fully integrated with other physical systems such as quantum acoustics, photonics, and microfluidics.
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Yudistira, D., Boes, A., Dumas, B., Rezk, A. R., Yousefi, M., Djafari-Rouhani, B., … Mitchell, A. (2016). Phonon-polariton entrapment in homogenous surface phonon cavities. Annalen Der Physik, 528(5), 365–372. https://doi.org/10.1002/andp.201500348
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