The 2026 guided acoustic waves roadmap
Guided elastic waves are a truly cross-disciplinary key enabling technology. For more than five decades, surface acoustic wave (SAW) and bulk acoustic wave devices find widespread applications. Nowadays, different types of guided elastic waves cover the wide spectrum of applications spanning from quantum technologies to the life sciences, from controlling single excitations to macroscopic collective states in condensed matter. Six years after the first 2019 SAW roadmap, we believe it is time to make a step back and take a fresh look at the status of the field and its future challenges. Since the first roadmap in 2019, the spectrum clearly expanded and this new edition presents a current snapshot of the status of this vibrant field and prospects for potential future developments.
Authors
- S. Lazić (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1389-1901)
- Paulo Ventura Santos (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0218-8030)
- Geoff Nash
- Y. Otani (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8008-1493)
- Himakshi Mishra (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9095-3013)
- L. Thevenard (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4723-2955)
- Leslie Y. Yeo (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5949-9729)
- C. Gourdon (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9901-1399)
- M. Albrecht (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0795-8487)
- M. Marangolo (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6211-8168)
- Ausrine Bartasyte (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8862-2669)
- Daniel Wigger (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4190-8803)
- Shujie Yang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2626-3397)
- Lizebona August Ambattu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6073-0652)
- Samuel H. Margueron (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2971-1351)
- Parameswar Krishnan Iyer (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4126-3774)
- Krishna C. Balram (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7132-733X)
- Keji Lai
- H. Schmidt (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2352-351X)
- P. Rovillain (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3960-4544)
- T. Kühn (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7449-9287)
- Matthias Küß (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5934-4153)
- H. Sellier (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1439-1044)
- Paromita Bhattacharjee (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7247-7535)
- Jessie S. Jeon (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6690-5775)
- Yunyoung Hwang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8379-8921)
- Jorge Puebla
- Harshal B. Nemade (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4792-8979)
- Hubert J. Krenner (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0696-456X)
- A. N. Cleland (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4981-4294)
- Joseph Rufo (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7408-2393)
- A. Hernández‐Mínguez (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4361-9914)
- Emeline D. S. Nysten (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7363-5355)
- Christoph Westerhausen (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7103-7060)
- Yabin Jin
- Mo Li
- Daesik Kwak
- Sami Hage-Ali
- Abdelkrim Khelif
- A. S. Kuznetsov
- Omar Elmazria
- Tony Jun Huang
- Galan Moody
- Shintaro Takada
- Christopher Bäuerle
- Gao Feng
- Paweł Machnikowski
- Matthias Weiß
- I-Tung Chen
- Gustav Andersson
Institutions
- Institut polytechnique de Grenoble (FR)
- Wrocław University of Science and Technology (PL)
- Argonne National Laboratory (US)
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR)
- Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati (IN)
- University of Kaiserslautern (DE)
- University of California, Santa Barbara (US)
- Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KR)
- Manipal Academy of Higher Education (IN)
- Duke University (US)
- University of Augsburg (DE)
- Institut Universitaire de France (FR)
- University of Washington (US)
- Kyoto University (JP)
- University of Münster (DE)
- University of Exeter (GB)
- Fudan University (CN)
- Université Paris-Saclay (FR)
- University of Koblenz and Landau (DE)
- Franche-Comté Électronique Mécanique Thermique et Optique - Sciences et Technologies (FR)
- Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research (DE)
- University of Bristol (GB)
- Sorbonne Université (FR)
- University of Chicago (US)
- Centre de Nanosciences et de Nanotechnologies (FR)
- Paul Drude Institute for Solid State Electronics (DE)
- Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Madrid (ES)
- Community Initiatives (US)
- RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science (JP)
- Institut des NanoSciences de Paris (FR)
- Institute of Mathematics (PL)
- Institut Néel (FR)
- Hamad bin Khalifa University (QA)
- Institut Jean Lamour (FR)
- Forschungsverbund Berlin (DE)
- Rheinland-Pfälzische Technische Universität Kaiserslautern-Landau (DE)
- Zhejiang University of Technology (CN)
- Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (ES)
- AGH University of Krakow (PL)
- The University of Tokyo (JP)
- RMIT University (AU)
- The University of Texas at Austin (US)
- Université Grenoble Alpes (FR)
- Université de Lorraine (FR)
- Université de Franche-Comté (FR)
- The University of Osaka (JP)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Journal of Physics D Applied Physics
- Published
- 2026-03-02
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6463/ae258d
- Citations
- 1
- Primary Topic
- Ultrasonics and Acoustic Wave Propagation
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 18.34
Funders
- National Science Foundation
- U.S. Department of Energy
- Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung
- University of Chicago
- European Commission
- National Research Foundation
- Department of Science and Technology, Ministry of Science and Technology, India
- Indian Council of Medical Research
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
- Agence Nationale de la Recherche
- Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology
- National Natural Science Foundation of China
- Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung
- Science and Technology Commission of Shanghai Municipality
- National Research Foundation of Korea
- Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
- Ministry of Education, India
- Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación
- Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster
- Ministry of Electronics and Information technology
- Indo-German Science and Technology Centre
- National Institutes of Health
- Office of Science
- University of California, Santa Barbara
- Materials Research Science and Engineering Center, Harvard University
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
- Division of Materials Research
- Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems
- Moonshot Research and Development Program
- Air Force Office of Scientific Research
- Army Research Office