Surface acoustic wave (SAW) devices are key components for sensing applications. SAW propagation under a periodic grating was investigated in this work. The theoretical method used here is the space harmonic method. We also applied the results of SAW propagation studied in this work to design a two-port resonator with an Al grating on ST-cut quartz. The measured frequency responses of the reson...

A novel process to control light through the coupling modulation by surface acoustic wave (SAW) is presented in an optical micro resonator. An optical waveguide modulator of a racetrack resonator on silicon-on-insulator (SOI) technology is took as an example to explore the mechanism. A finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) is developed to simulate the acousto-optical (AO) modulator using the mec...

The Helmholtz resonator is a prototype of a single acoustic resonance, which can be modeled with a digital resonator. This paper extends this concept by coupling several Helmholtz resonators. The resulting structure is called a Helmholtz resonator tree. The height of the tree is defined by the number of resonator layers that are interconnected. The overall number of resonance frequencies of a H...

Two electro-mechanical actuators are examined for a semi­ active Helmholtz resonator acoustic device. The device is used to reflect narrowband noise back to the source in an acoustic duct. The controller and actuator are used to tune the system on-line allowing optimum performance over a range of operating conditions. Actuator. dynamics play an important role in the controller design and the op...

In acoustic energy, harvesting energy is captured from external noise sources, controlled and stored for various applications. Despite the prevalence of acoustic energy a major challenge of energy harvesting is the low power density. Acoustic Energy Harvester consists of a resonator, an acoustic transducer and a storage device. When acoustic resonator is excited by an incident wave at its reson...

We study the scalar wave scattering off the spherical cavity resonator with two finite-length conical channels attached. We use the boundary wall method to explore the response of the system to changes in control parameters, such as the size of the structure and the angular width of the input and output channels, as well as their relative angular position. We found that the system is more sensi...

Surface acoustic waves (SAW) are used to coherently excite nanofabricated free standing beam resonators. Typical resonator sizes are L = 3.5 μm, w = 300nm, and h = 200nm, resulting in mechanical eigenfrequencies of the order of 100 MHz. Depending on the ratio between the resonator eigenfrequency and the frequency of the driving SAW, and depending on the SAW amplitude, we observe a complex inter...