Table 2 The performance of mechanical resonators in optomechanical (OM) and electromechanical (EM) devices

From: Degeneracy-breaking and long-lived multimode microwave electromechanical systems enabled by cubic silicon-carbide membrane crystals

Material

Bandgap isolation

Structure

Frequency

Q factor

Total linewidth

Pure dephasing

Group delay

Ground-state

Coherence time

Al-stairs-drum98

no

stairs-circular plate (EM)

2π 10.69 MHz

3.6 × 105

2π 30 Hz

not report

~5 ms

yes

130 μs

Al-flat-drum134

no

flat circular plate (EM)

2π 1.8 MHz

1.6 × 107

2π 0.135 Hz

2π 0.09 Hz

not report

yes

7.7 ms

SiN99

no

double clamped beam (EM)

2π 1.45 MHz

6 × 105

2π 14.5 Hz

not report

3.4 ms

no

not report

SiN90

yes

phononic crystal beam (EM)

2π 4.48 MHz

5.6 × 105

2π 8 Hz

not report

19.9 ms

yes

not report

SiN92

yes

Lotus membrane (EM)

2π 1.48 MHz

5.7 × 108

2π 2.6 mHz

2π 0.5 mHz

not report

yes

~100 ms

SiN22,117

no

square membrane (EM)

2π 750 kHz

7.8 × 107

2π 9.7 mHz

not report

~ 500 s

yes

55.7 μs

SiN78

yes

Honeycomb lattice (OM)

2π 2.4 MHz

108

2π 24 mHz

not report

23 ms

no

100 μs

crystalline silicon77

yes

phononic crystal beam (OM)

2π 5 GHz

~4.09 × 106

2π 1.22 kHz

2π 1.219 kHz

not report

yes

130 μs

crystalline silicon93

yes

phononic crystal beam (EM)

2π 5.08 GHz

~2 × 105

2π 31.8 kHz

2π 30 kHz

not report

yes

5 μs

crystalline silicon136

yes

phononic crystal beam (OM)

2π 5.12 GHz

~2.58 × 106

2π 1.98 kHz

2π 1.42 kHz

not report

yes

≤112μs

gallium phosphide (GaP)65

yes

phononic crystal beam (OM)

2π 2.81 GHz

4 × 104

2π 67 kHz

2π 64.5 kHz

not report

yes

2.37 μs

gallium arsenide (GaAs)140

no

phononic crystal beam (OM)

2π 2.7 GHz

1.8 × 104

2π 179 kHz

not report

not report

yes

0.8 μs

aluminum nitride (AlN)141

no

microdisk (OM)

2π 0.78 GHz

3.86 × 103

2π 202 kHz

not report

0.76 μs

no

not report

lithium niobate (LiNbO3)142

yes

phononic crystal beam (OM)

2π 2.1 GHz

1.7 × 104

2π 123 kHz

not report

not report

no

not report

crystalline diamond100

no

microdisk (OM)

2π 2.14 GHz

1.12 × 104

2π 190 kHz

not report

~5ms

no

not report

3C-SiC143

no

microdisk (OM)

2π 579 MHz

5.3 × 103

2π 108 kHz

not report

not report

no

not report

3C-SiC144,145,146

no

nanowire (OM)

2π 50 kHz

103

2π 50 Hz

not clear

not report

no

not report

4H-SiC147

yes

microdisk (OM)

2π 6.2 MHz

2.8 × 106

2π 2.21 Hz

not report

not report

no

not report

3C-SiC [this work]

no

square membrane (EM)

2π 871 kHz mode (1,3)

1.2 × 108

2π 8.2 mHz

2π 0.28 mHz

4035 s

yes

41.3 ms

3C-SiC [this work]

no

square membrane (EM)

2π 1.178 MHz mode (3,3)

2 × 108

2π 6.04 mHz

2π 0.25 mHz

>5000 s

yes

67.75 ms

  1. The listed Q-factors in the table correspond to the total linewidth rather than solely considering energy decay. For these properties of other oscillators not listed in the table, please refer to the reviews23,27,148,149