Broadband transparent optical phase change materials for high-performance nonvolatile photonics.

Abstract:

:Optical phase change materials (O-PCMs), a unique group of materials featuring exceptional optical property contrast upon a solid-state phase transition, have found widespread adoption in photonic applications such as switches, routers and reconfigurable meta-optics. Current O-PCMs, such as Ge-Sb-Te (GST), exhibit large contrast of both refractive index (Δn) and optical loss (Δk), simultaneously. The coupling of both optical properties fundamentally limits the performance of many applications. Here we introduce a new class of O-PCMs based on Ge-Sb-Se-Te (GSST) which breaks this traditional coupling. The optimized alloy, Ge2Sb2Se4Te1, combines broadband transparency (1-18.5 μm), large optical contrast (Δn = 2.0), and significantly improved glass forming ability, enabling an entirely new range of infrared and thermal photonic devices. We further demonstrate nonvolatile integrated optical switches with record low loss and large contrast ratio and an electrically-addressed spatial light modulator pixel, thereby validating its promise as a material for scalable nonvolatile photonics.

journal_name

Nat Commun

journal_title

Nature communications

authors

Zhang Y,Chou JB,Li J,Li H,Du Q,Yadav A,Zhou S,Shalaginov MY,Fang Z,Zhong H,Roberts C,Robinson P,Bohlin B,Ríos C,Lin H,Kang M,Gu T,Warner J,Liberman V,Richardson K,Hu J

doi

10.1038/s41467-019-12196-4

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2019-09-30 00:00:00

pages

4279

issue

1

issn

2041-1723

pii

10.1038/s41467-019-12196-4

journal_volume

10

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