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 …

Metamaterial absorbers: from tunable surface to structural transformation

W Li, M Xu, HX Xu, X Wang, W Huang - Advanced Materials, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Since the first demonstration, remarkable progress has been made in the theoretical
analysis, structural design, numerical simulation, and potential applications of metamaterial …

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 …

Electrical tuning of phase-change antennas and metasurfaces

Y Wang, P Landreman, D Schoen, K Okabe… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
The success of semiconductor electronics is built on the creation of compact, low-power
switching elements that offer routing, logic and memory functions. The availability of …

Tunable phase-change metasurfaces

S Lepeshov, A Krasnok - Nature Nanotechnology, 2021 - nature.com
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Reconfigurable chalcogenide phase change metamaterials: a material, device, and fabrication perspective

A Mandal, Y Cui, L McRae… - Journal of Physics …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Chalcogenide phase change semiconductors have played a crucial role in the evolution of
photonic technologies. From their decades-long utilization at the core of optical disks to their …

Reconfigurable flat optics with programmable reflection amplitude using lithography‐free phase‐change material ultra‐thin films

S Cueff, A Taute, A Bourgade, J Lumeau… - Advanced Optical …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
A very large dynamic optical reflection modulation from a simple unpatterned layered stack
of phase‐change material ultra‐thin films is experimentally demonstrated. Specifically, this …

The Potential of Combining Thermal Scanning Probes and Phase‐Change Materials for Tunable Metasurfaces

AKU Michel, S Meyer, N Essing… - Advanced Optical …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Metasurfaces allow for the spatiotemporal variation of amplitude, phase, and polarization of
optical wavefronts. Implementation of active tunability of metasurfaces promises compact flat …

Active control of resonant asymmetric transmission based on topological edge states in paired photonic crystals with a Ge2Sb2Te5 film

Z Ge, T Sang, S Li, C Luo, Y Wang - Applied Optics, 2023 - opg.optica.org
For many high-precision applications such as filtering, sensing, and photodetection, active
control of resonant responses of metasurfaces is crucial. Herein, we demonstrate that active …

Simple technique for determining the refractive index of phase-change materials using near-infrared reflectometry

E Gemo, SV Kesava, C Ruiz De Galarreta… - Optical Materials …, 2020 - opg.optica.org
Phase-change materials, such as the well-known ternary alloy Ge_2Sb_2Te_5, are
essential to many types of photonic devices, from re-writeable optical disk memories to more …