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 …

Interface nano-optics with van der Waals polaritons

Q Zhang, G Hu, W Ma, P Li, A Krasnok, R Hillenbrand… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Polaritons are hybrid excitations of matter and photons. In recent years, polaritons in van der
Waals nanomaterials—known as van der Waals polaritons—have shown great promise to …

Optical metasurfaces for energy conversion

E Cortés, FJ Wendisch, L Sortino, A Mancini… - Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Nanostructured surfaces with designed optical functionalities, such as metasurfaces, allow
efficient harvesting of light at the nanoscale, enhancing light–matter interactions for a wide …

Volatile and nonvolatile memristive devices for neuromorphic computing

G Zhou, Z Wang, B Sun, F Zhou, L Sun… - Advanced Electronic …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Ion migration as well as electron transfer and coupling in resistive switching materials
endow memristors with a physically tunable conductance to resemble synapses, neurons …

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 …

Manipulating polaritons at the extreme scale in van der Waals materials

Y Wu, J Duan, W Ma, Q Ou, P Li… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Polaritons, originating from the interactions between photons and material excitations, have
attracted attention because of their strong field compression and deeply subdiffractional …

Freeform direct-write and rewritable photonic integrated circuits in phase-change thin films

C Wu, H Deng, YS Huang, H Yu, I Takeuchi… - Science …, 2024 - science.org
Photonic integrated circuits (PICs) with rapid prototy** and reprogramming capabilities
promise revolutionary impacts on a plethora of photonic technologies. We report direct-write …

Polariton panorama

DN Basov, A Asenjo-Garcia, PJ Schuck, X Zhu… - …, 2020 - degruyter.com
In this brief review, we summarize and elaborate on some of the nomenclature of polaritonic
phenomena and systems as they appear in the literature on quantum materials and …

Planar hyperbolic polaritons in 2D van der Waals materials

H Wang, A Kumar, S Dai, X Lin, Z Jacob, SH Oh… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Anisotropic planar polaritons-hybrid electromagnetic modes mediated by phonons,
plasmons, or excitons-in biaxial two-dimensional (2D) van der Waals crystals have attracted …

Recent progress in vanadium dioxide: The multi-stimuli responsive material and its applications

S Bhupathi, S Wang, Y Ke, Y Long - Materials Science and Engineering: R …, 2023 - Elsevier
The reversible phase transition in vanadium dioxide (VO 2) with light, heat, electric,
magnetic, and mechanical stimuli is the enabling concept to function as a smart material. It is …