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Buried-Electrode Hybrid Bonded Thin-Film Lithium Niobate Electro-Optic Mach-Zehnder Modulators

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Kodigala, Ashok; Valdez, Forrest; Mere, Viphretuo; Mookherjea, Shayan; Boynton, Nicholas; Friedmann, Thomas A.; Arterburn, Shawn C.; Dallo, Christina; Pomerene, Andrew; Starbuck, Andrew L.; Lentine, Anthony L.; Trotter, Douglas C.

Hybrid bonded silicon nitride thin-film lithium niobate (TFLN) Mach-Zehnder modulators (MZMs) at 1310 nm were designed with metal coplanar waveguide electrodes buried in the silicon-on-insulator (SOI) chip. The MZM devices showed greatly improved performance compared to earlier devices of a similar design, and similar performance to comparable MZM devices with gold electrodes made on top of the TFLN layer. Both devices achieve a 3-dB electro-optic bandwidth greater than 110 GHz and voltage-driven optical extinction ratios greater than 28 dB. Half-wave voltage-length products ( Vπ L) of 2.8 and 2.5 Vċ cm were measured for the 0.5 and 0.4 cm long buried metal and top gold electrode MZMs, respectively.

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TYPE Journal Article YEAR 2023
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The Feasibility of Incorporating a 3D Velocity Model Into Earthquake Location Around Salt Lake City, UT Using a Physics Informed Neural Network

Wells, Daniel E.; Baker, Benjamin; Pankow, Kristine

Earthquake location algorithms typically require travel time calculation. Doing this calculation in 3D, despite advances in algorithm efficiency and computational power, can still be prohibitively expensive in terms of resources and storage. Implementation of high-resolution 3D models in routine earthquake location would be a significant step forward in most of the world. Machine learning algorithms have potential to act as substitutes for travel time calculation algorithms or stored travel time tables. We investigate EikoNet - a physics informed neural network machine learning model that estimates travel times very quickly and comes with negligible memory-overhead. Specifically, we apply EikoNet to the Wasatch Fault Community Velocity Model (WFCVM), a highly detailed and complex 3D velocity model of the Salt Lake City, UT region. While routine locations in the area and studies of the 2020 Magna, UT earthquake sequence used a 1D velocity model, a 3D model may help better our understanding the structure of the major fault in the region. Our primary goal was to test the speed, memory requirements, and accuracy of EikoNet compared to a reference eikonal solver. We find that while the EikoNet is exceedingly fast and requires little memory overhead, achieving acceptable accuracy in estimated travel times is difficult and requires extensive computational resources.

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TYPE SAND Report YEAR 2023
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Uncovering microstructure and composition susceptibility of high permittivity ceramic granules to plasma-induced arc breakdown

Journal of the American Ceramic Society

Yang, Pin; Grey, John K.; Dickens, Sara M.; Grant, Richard P.; Vreeland, David E.

Effective diversion of surge currents is vital to prevent unwanted damage to sensitive electronics. Among the most successful and efficient strategies relies on a dielectric stimulated arc breakdown mechanism with high permittivity ceramic granules in a spark-gap geometry. Although generally regarded as a self-healing process, substantial energy deposition may occur that, over time, diminishes the ability to withstand repeated electrical assaults. We investigate the susceptibility of lead–magnesium–niobate–lead titanate (PMN–PT) granule microstructure and composition changes following many exposures to high voltage impulses resulting in arc breakdown. Scanning electron microscopy and energy-dispersive spectroscopy mapping reveal a broad range of thermal and mechanical defects entailing thermal reduction of constituent PMN–PT metal ions and recasting due to rapid eruption of volatile species. Additionally, evidence of local melting and microcracking are apparent that can have deleterious impact on the proper function of the granules, namely, the ability to concentrate electric fields across air gaps to establish and sustain discharge pathways. We propose that the localized nature of damage and stochasticity associated with the dielectric stimulated breakdown mechanism may allow granules to maintain functionality provided no permanent conduction paths are established.

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TYPE Journal Article YEAR 2023
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A Catalog of Temporally Localized Systematic Deviations in Global Body Wave Travel-Time Measurements

Hariharan, Anant; Porritt, Robert W.; Conley, Andrea C.

Accurate measurements of the arrival times of seismic waves are crucial for seismological analyses such as robust locations of earthquakes, characterization of seismic sources, and high-fidelity imaging of the Earth’s interior. However, these travel-time measurements can sometimes be contaminated by timing errors at the stations which record this data. In this study, we apply a classical approach, based on identifying time-dependence in measured body wave arrival times, to identify these timing errors in a dataset on the order of 107 individual measurements. We find timing deviations at a subset of the stations in our dataset and document the temporal location, extent, and severity of these errors, finding errors at 83 stations, and impacting ~100,000 measurements. This catalog of deviations may enable future investigators to obtain a more accurate dataset through the implementation of quality control measures to eliminate the contaminated data we have identified.

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TYPE SAND Report YEAR 2023
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