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Overview

Gianluca Piazza is affiliated with Carnegie Mellon University in the United States and has contributed extensively to the field of engineering with a focus on electrical and electronic engineering. Their research spans multiple subfields, including biomedical engineering, materials chemistry, atomic and molecular physics and optics, and mechanics of materials.

Their main research interests concentrate on acoustic wave resonator technologies, advanced MEMS (Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems) and NEMS (Nano-Electro-Mechanical Systems) technologies, ferroelectric and piezoelectric materials, ultrasonics and acoustic wave propagation, as well as mechanical and optical resonators. Additionally, they have explored photonic and optical devices, and microwave engineering and waveguides.

Gianluca Piazza has published a significant number of papers in various specialized venues. Their frequent publication venues include:

  • IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices
  • Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems
  • 2022 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium (IUS)
  • Applied Physics Letters
  • IEEE Journal of Microwaves

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Gianluca Piazza include:

  • "From Microwave Acoustic Filters to Millimeter-Wave Operation and New Applications" (2022), published in IEEE Journal of Microwaves
  • "33 GHz Overmoded Bulk Acoustic Resonator" (2022), published in IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters
  • "High-Figure-of-Merit X-Cut Lithium Niobate MEMS Resonators Operating Around 50 MHz for Large Passive Voltage Amplification in Radio Frequency Applications" (2020), published in IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control
  • "X-Cut Lithium Niobate-Based Shear Horizontal Resonators for Radio Frequency Applications" (2020), published in Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems
  • "Sub-GHz X-Cut Lithium Niobate S₀ Mode MEMS Resonators" (2022), published in Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems

The scientist has collaborated frequently with several co-authors. Notable frequent collaborators include:

  • R Todi
  • Paul R. Berger
  • John M. Dallesasse
  • M De Souza
  • Patrick Fay

Best Publications

  • Piezoelectric Aluminum Nitride Vibrating Contour-Mode MEMS Resonators

    G. Piazza;P.J. Stephanou;A.P. Pisano

  • Design and Analysis of Lithium–Niobate-Based High Electromechanical Coupling RF-MEMS Resonators for Wideband Filtering

    Songbin Gong;G. Piazza

  • Single-Chip Multiple-Frequency ALN MEMS Filters Based on Contour-Mode Piezoelectric Resonators

    G. Piazza;P.J. Stephanou;A.P. Pisano

  • Super-high-frequency two-port AlN contour-mode resonators for RF applications

    M. Rinaldi;C. Zuniga;Chengjie Zuo;G. Piazza

  • Piezoelectric aluminum nitride thin films for microelectromechanical systems

    Gianluca Piazza;Valeriy Felmetsger;Paul Muralt;Roy H. Olsson

  • Piezoelectric MEMS Resonators

    Harmeet Bhugra;Gianluca Piazza

  • Piezoelectric aluminum nitride nanoelectromechanical actuators

    Nipun Sinha;Graham E. Wabiszewski;Rashed Mahameed;Valery V. Felmetsger

  • From Microwave Acoustic Filters to Millimeter-Wave Operation and New Applications

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  • Piezo electric on seminconductor on- insulator resonator

    Farrokh Ayazi;Gianluca Piazza;Reza Abdolvand;Gavin Kar-Fai Ho

  • One and two port piezoelectric higher order contour-mode MEMS resonators for mechanical signal processing

    Gianluca Piazza;Philip J. Stephanou;Albert P. Pisano

  • 1.05-GHz CMOS oscillator based on lateral- field-excited piezoelectric AlN contour- mode MEMS resonators

    Chengjie Zuo;J. Van Der Spiegel;G. Piazza

  • Anchor Losses in AlN Contour Mode Resonators

    Jeronimo Segovia-Fernandez;Massimiliano Cremonesi;Cristian Cassella;Attilio Frangi

  • 5-10 GHz AlN Contour-Mode Nanoelectromechanical Resonators

    M. Rinaldi;C. Zuniga;G. Piazza

  • Voltage-tunable piezoelectrically-transduced single-crystal silicon micromechanical resonators

    Gianluca Piazza;Reza Abdolvand;Gavin K. Ho;Farrokh Ayazi

  • Contour-mode piezoelectric micromechanical resonators

    Gianluca Piazza;Philip J. Stephanou;Albert P. Pisano

  • Acousto-optical modulation of thin film lithium niobate waveguide devices

    Lutong Cai;Ashraf Mahmoud;Msi Khan;Mohamed Mahmoud

  • Reconfigurable CMOS Oscillator Based on Multifrequency AlN Contour-Mode MEMS Resonators

    M Rinaldi;Chengjie Zuo;J Van der Spiegel;G Piazza

  • Dual-Beam Actuation of Piezoelectric AlN RF MEMS Switches Monolithically Integrated with AlN Contour-Mode Resonators

    Rashed Mahameed;Nipun Sinha;Marcelo B Pisani;Gianluca Piazza

  • Body-Biased Complementary Logic Implemented Using AlN Piezoelectric MEMS Switches

    N. Sinha;T. S. Jones;Zhijun Guo;G. Piazza

  • Low motional resistance ring-shaped contour-mode aluminum nitride piezoelectric micromechanical resonators for UHF applications

    G. Piazza;P.J. Stephanou;J.M. Porter;M.B.J. Wijesundara

  • High frequency micromechanical piezo-on-silicon block resonators

    S. Humad;R. Abdolvand;G.K. Ho;G. Piazza

  • Very high frequency channel-select MEMS filters based on self-coupled piezoelectric AlN contour-mode resonators

    Chengjie Zuo;Nipun Sinha;Gianluca Piazza

Frequent Co-Authors

Albert P. Pisano
Albert P. Pisano University of California, San Diego
Songbin Gong
Songbin Gong University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Gary K. Fedder
Gary K. Fedder Carnegie Mellon University
Navab Singh
Navab Singh Agency for Science, Technology and Research
Farrokh Ayazi
Farrokh Ayazi Georgia Institute of Technology
J. Van der Spiegel
J. Van der Spiegel University of Pennsylvania
Reza Abdolvand
Reza Abdolvand University of Central Florida
Brian Otis
Brian Otis University of Washington
Larry Pileggi
Larry Pileggi Carnegie Mellon University
Robert W. Carpick
Robert W. Carpick University of Pennsylvania

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