[HTML][HTML] 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 …

[HTML][HTML] 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 …

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 …

A New Family of Ultralow Loss Reversible Phase‐Change Materials for Photonic Integrated Circuits: Sb2S3 and Sb2Se3

M Delaney, I Zeimpekis, D Lawson… - Advanced functional …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Phase‐change materials (PCMs) are seeing tremendous interest for their use in
reconfigurable photonic devices; however, the most common PCMs exhibit a large …

[HTML][HTML] Reconfigurable all-dielectric metalens with diffraction-limited performance

MY Shalaginov, S An, Y Zhang, F Yang, P Su… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Active metasurfaces, whose optical properties can be modulated post-fabrication, have
emerged as an intensively explored field in recent years. The efforts to date, however, still …

[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 …

Non-volatile reconfigurable silicon photonics based on phase-change materials

Z Fang, R Chen, J Zheng… - IEEE Journal of Selected …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The traditional ways of tuning a silicon photonic network are mainly based on the thermo-
optic effect or the free carrier dispersion. The drawbacks of these methods are the volatile …

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 …

Miniature multilevel optical memristive switch using phase change material

H Zhang, L Zhou, L Lu, J Xu, N Wang, H Hu… - ACS …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Optical memristive switches can be used as optical latching switches in which the switching
state is changed only by applying an electrical Write/Erase pulse and maintained without an …

Broadband nonvolatile electrically controlled programmable units in silicon photonics

R Chen, Z Fang, JE Froch, P Xu, J Zheng… - ACS …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Programmable photonic integrated circuits (PICs) have recently gained significant interest
because of their potential in creating next-generation technologies ranging from artificial …