Nonlinear heat transfer can be exploited to reveal novel transport phenomena and thus
enhance people's ability to manipulate heat flux at will. However, there has not been a …

We demonstrated optical bistability in an amorphous silicon Mie resonator with a size of∼
100 nm and Q-factor as low as∼ 4 by utilizing photothermal and thermo-optical effects. We …

In the present paper, recent advances in the design and fabrication of optical memories
based on photonic crystal structure have been reviewed. One of the most important optical …

Efficient heat management and control in optical devices, facilitated by advanced thermo‐
optic materials, are critical for many applications such as photovoltaics, thermal emitters …

Photonic memory devices are capable of giving different outputs for the same present input,
judging from the input's past values and, in this way,“remembering” what happened the …

Photonic crystal (PhC) membranes patterned with sub‐wavelength periods offer a unique
combination of high reflectivity, low mass, and high mechanical quality factor. Using a PhC …

We demonstrate a low power thermally induced optical bistability at telecom wavelengths
and room temperature using a nanobeam photonic crystal cavity embedded with an …

We theoretically design a kind of diffusion bistability (and even multistability) in the
macroscopic scale, which has a similar phenomenon but different underlying mechanism …

Stochastic dynamics of a nonlinear thermal circuit is studied. Due to the existence of
negative differential thermal resistance, there exist two stable steady states that satisfy both …

A thermal transistor consists of three segments, the drain, the source, and the gate. We study
the influence of the thermal resistance RG in the gate segment systematically and reveal its …