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NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
Volume 13, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
NATURE PORTFOLIO
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-29374-6
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- Office of Naval Research (ONR) [N00014-18-1-2055]
- Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency [D19AC00001]
- ONR [N00014-17-1-2555]
- National Science Foundation (NSF) [DMR-2004749, ECCS1542174]
- Air Force Office of Scientific Research
- Simons Foundation
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft [SFB 917]
- NSF-CHE [1608801]
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien
- Division Of Chemistry [1608801] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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The authors demonstrate an efficient platform for electrically driven reconfigurable metasurfaces using phase-change materials. This platform allows for non-volatile, reversible, multilevel, and fast optical modulation and wavefront engineering in the near-infrared spectral range. The study represents a critical advance towards the development of fully integrable dynamic metasurfaces and their potential for beamforming applications.
The authors demonstrate an efficient platform for electrically driven reconfigurable metasurfaces by using Ge2Sb2Te5 to realize non-volatile, reversible, multilevel, and fast optical modulation and wavefront engineering in the near-infrared spectral range. Phase-change materials (PCMs) offer a compelling platform for active metaoptics, owing to their large index contrast and fast yet stable phase transition attributes. Despite recent advances in phase-change metasurfaces, a fully integrable solution that combines pronounced tuning measures, i.e., efficiency, dynamic range, speed, and power consumption, is still elusive. Here, we demonstrate an in situ electrically driven tunable metasurface by harnessing the full potential of a PCM alloy, Ge2Sb2Te5 (GST), to realize non-volatile, reversible, multilevel, fast, and remarkable optical modulation in the near-infrared spectral range. Such a reprogrammable platform presents a record eleven-fold change in the reflectance (absolute reflectance contrast reaching 80%), unprecedented quasi-continuous spectral tuning over 250 nm, and switching speed that can potentially reach a few kHz. Our scalable heterostructure architecture capitalizes on the integration of a robust resistive microheater decoupled from an optically smart metasurface enabling good modal overlap with an ultrathin layer of the largest index contrast PCM to sustain high scattering efficiency even after several reversible phase transitions. We further experimentally demonstrate an electrically reconfigurable phase-change gradient metasurface capable of steering an incident light beam into different diffraction orders. This work represents a critical advance towards the development of fully integrable dynamic metasurfaces and their potential for beamforming applications.
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