Review of the VO2 smart material applications with emphasis on its use for spacecraft thermal control

E Haddad, RV Kruzelecky, P Murzionak… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
It is surprising to see the wide range and versatile potential of applications of the VO2, due to
its transition from a semiconductor phase at low temperature, to a metallic state at high …

Ultrafast plasmonic optical switching structures and devices

X Zhang, J Yang - Frontiers in Physics, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Plasmonic structures possess rich physics related to the sensitivity of plasmon resonance to
the change in the environmental dielectric constant, the enhanced light scattering and …

Combining Switchable Phase‐Change Materials and Phase‐Transition Materials for Thermally Regulated Smart Mid‐Infrared Modulators

X Lyu, A Heßler, X Wang, Y Cao, L Song… - Advanced Optical …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Phase‐change materials (PCMs) and phase‐transition materials (PTMs) both show a large
contrast in their respective optical properties upon switching, enabling compact optical …

Polarization-dependent thermal-tunable graphene-based metamaterial exploiting critical coupling with guided mode resonances

YM Qing, Z Huang, H Jiang, B Li - JOSA B, 2023 - opg.optica.org
A polarization-dependent thermal-tunable graphene metamaterial consisting of a graphene
monolayer, amorphous silicon photonic crystal, and lossless metallic mirror is proposed to …

Thermally-electrically tunable graphene-based guided-mode resonant perfect absorber

ZT Huang, HY Jiang, ZY Wang… - IEEE Photonics …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We propose a thermally-electrically tunable perfect absorber based on amorphous silicon (a-
Si) and graphene. Numerical results reveal that a perfect absorption with narrow bandwidth …

Tunable infrared optical switch based on vanadium dioxide

Q Wang, S Zhang, C Wang, R Li, T Cai, D Zhang - Nanomaterials, 2021 - mdpi.com
A tunable infrared optical switch based on a plasmonic structure consisting of aluminum
nanoarrays with a thin film of vanadium dioxide is proposed. This optical switch can realize …

T-shaped tunable infrared optical switch based on vanadium dioxide with dual-wavelength channels

Q Wang, W Yang, C Tao, P Fan, Y Jing… - Optics & Laser …, 2024 - Elsevier
A T-shaped tunable infrared optical switch based on a plasmonic structure composed of
metal nanorods and vanadium dioxide film is proposed. The dynamic adjustment strategy …

Delicate tuning of epitaxial VO2 films for ultra-sharp electrical and intense IR optical switching properties

AM Makarevich, AG Sobol, II Sadykov… - Journal of Alloys and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Epitaxial VO 2 films on r-sapphire substrates with ideal composition, dense structure and
superior functional properties were obtained by water-assisted MOCVD from vanadyl …

Electrically controllable optical switch metasurface based on vanadium dioxide

Y Ma, H Zhou, Y Huang, J Guo, Y Zhu, Z Wu, Q Gu… - Optics Letters, 2023 - opg.optica.org
We report a voltage-tunable reflective gold wire grid metasurface on vanadium dioxide thin
film, which consists of a metal-insulator-metal (MIM) structure. We excite surface plasmon …

Tunable directional filter for mid-infrared optical transmission switching

A Butler, J Schulz, C Argyropoulos - Optics Express, 2022 - opg.optica.org
Controlling the spectral and angular response of infrared (IR) radiation is a challenging task
of paramount importance to various emerging photonic applications. Here, we overcome …