Nanophotonics has garnered intensive attention due to its unique capabilities in molding the
flow of light in the subwavelength regime. Metasurfaces (MSs) and photonic integrated …

The global demand for data storage and processing has increased exponentially in recent
decades. To respond to this demand, research efforts have been devoted to the …

Optical phase change materials (O-PCMs), a unique group of materials featuring
exceptional optical property contrast upon a solid-state phase transition, have found …

Phase-change materials (PCMs) provide a unique combination of properties. On
transformation from the amorphous to crystalline state, their optical properties change …

The search for new “neuromorphic computing” architectures that mimic the brain's approach
to simultaneous processing and storage of information is intense. Because, in real brains …

Camouflage technology has attracted growing interest for many thermal applications.
Previous experimental demonstrations of thermal camouflage technology have not …

Implementing on-chip non-volatile photonic memories has been a long-term, yet elusive
goal. Photonic data storage would dramatically improve performance in existing computing …

The traditional ways of tuning a silicon photonic network are mainly based on the thermo-
optic effect or the free carrier dispersion. The drawbacks of these methods are the volatile …

An optical equivalent of the field-programmable gate array (FPGA) is of great interest to
large-scale photonic integrated circuits. Previous programmable photonic devices relying on …

Optically storing and addressing data on photonic chips is of particular interest as such
capability would eliminate optoelectronic conversion losses in data centers. It would also …