Integrated optical memristors

N Youngblood, CA Ríos Ocampo, WHP Pernice… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Memristors in electronics have shown the potential for a range of applications, ranging from
circuit elements to neuromorphic computing. In recent years, the ability to vary the …

Tunable nanophotonics enabled by chalcogenide phase-change materials

S Abdollahramezani, O Hemmatyar, H Taghinejad… - …, 2020 - degruyter.com
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 …

Ultra-low-energy programmable non-volatile silicon photonics based on phase-change materials with graphene heaters

Z Fang, R Chen, J Zheng, AI Khan, KM Neilson… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Silicon photonics is evolving from laboratory research to real-world applications with the
potential to transform many technologies, including optical neural networks and quantum …

Electrically reconfigurable non-volatile metasurface using low-loss optical phase-change material

Y Zhang, C Fowler, J Liang, B Azhar… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Active metasurfaces promise reconfigurable optics with drastically improved compactness,
ruggedness, manufacturability and functionality compared to their traditional bulk …

Programmable phase-change metasurfaces on waveguides for multimode photonic convolutional neural network

C Wu, H Yu, S Lee, R Peng, I Takeuchi, M Li - Nature communications, 2021 - nature.com
Neuromorphic photonics has recently emerged as a promising hardware accelerator, with
significant potential speed and energy advantages over digital electronics for machine …

Roadmap for phase change materials in photonics and beyond

P Prabhathan, KV Sreekanth, J Teng, JH Ko, YJ Yoo… - Iscience, 2023 - cell.com
Summary Phase Change Materials (PCMs) have demonstrated tremendous potential as a
platform for achieving diverse functionalities in active and reconfigurable micro …

Silicon photonics for high-capacity data communications

Y Shi, Y Zhang, Y Wan, Y Yu, Y Zhang, X Hu… - Photonics …, 2022 - opg.optica.org
In recent years, optical modulators, photodetectors,(de) multiplexers, and heterogeneously
integrated lasers based on silicon optical platforms have been verified. The performance of …

Nonvolatile electrically reconfigurable integrated photonic switch enabled by a silicon PIN diode heater

J Zheng, Z Fang, C Wu, S Zhu, P Xu… - Advanced …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Reconfigurability of photonic integrated circuits (PICs) has become increasingly important
due to the growing demands for electronic–photonic systems on a chip driven by emerging …

[HTML][HTML] Myths and truths about optical phase change materials: A perspective

Y Zhang, C Ríos, MY Shalaginov, M Li… - Applied Physics …, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
Uniquely furnishing giant and nonvolatile modulation of optical properties and chalcogenide
phase change materials (PCMs) have emerged as a promising material to transform …

Photonic (computational) memories: tunable nanophotonics for data storage and computing

C Lian, C Vagionas, T Alexoudi, N Pleros… - …, 2022 - degruyter.com
The exponential growth of information stored in data centers and computational power
required for various data-intensive applications, such as deep learning and AI, call for new …