Electronically reconfigurable photonic switches incorporating plasmonic structures and phase change materials

N Farmakidis, N Youngblood, JS Lee… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The ever‐increasing demands for data processing and storage will require seamless
monolithic co‐integration of electronics and photonics. Phase‐change materials are …

[HTML][HTML] A plasmonically enhanced route to faster and more energy-efficient phase-change integrated photonic memory and computing devices

E Gemo, J Faneca, S GC Carrillo… - Journal of Applied …, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
Over the past 30 years or more, chalcogenide phase-change materials and devices have
generated much scientific and industrial interest, particularly as a platform for non-volatile …

Phase-change materials for non-volatile photonic applications

M Wuttig, H Bhaskaran, T Taubner - Nature photonics, 2017 - nature.com
Phase-change materials (PCMs) provide a unique combination of properties. On
transformation from the amorphous to crystalline state, their optical properties change …

Plasmonic nanogap enhanced phase-change devices with dual electrical-optical functionality

N Farmakidis, N Youngblood, X Li, J Tan, JL Swett… - Science …, 2019 - science.org
Modern-day computers rely on electrical signaling for the processing and storage of data,
which is bandwidth-limited and power hungry. This fact has long been realized in the …

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 …

Low-loss and broadband nonvolatile phase-change directional coupler switches

P Xu, J Zheng, JK Doylend, A Majumdar - Acs Photonics, 2019 - ACS Publications
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 …

Integrated non-volatile plasmonic switches based on phase-change-materials and their application to plasmonic logic circuits

RR Ghosh, A Dhawan - Scientific reports, 2021 - nature.com
Integrated photonic devices or circuits that can execute both optical computation and optical
data storage are considered as the building blocks for photonic computations beyond the …

Plasmonically-enhanced all-optical integrated phase-change memory

E Gemo, SGC Carrillo, CR De Galarreta… - Optics express, 2019 - opg.optica.org
Integrated phase-change photonic memory devices offer a novel route to non-volatile
storage and computing that can be carried out entirely in the optical domain, obviating the …

Reconfigurable nanophotonic cavities with nonvolatile response

J Von Keitz, J Feldmann, N Gruhler, C Ríos… - ACS …, 2018 - ACS Publications
The use of phase-change materials on waveguide photonics is presently being purported for
a range of applications from on-chip photonic data storage to new computing paradigms …

Opportunities and challenges for large-scale phase-change material integrated electro-photonics

R Chen, Z Fang, F Miller, H Rarick, JE Froch… - ACS …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Programmable photonics have the potential to completely transform a range of emerging
applications, including optical computing, optical signal processing, light detecting and …