Optically reconfigurable metasurfaces and photonic devices based on phase change materials

Nature Photonics

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 60-65

  Wang, Qian ^a,b   Rogers, Edward T F ^a   Gholipour, Behrad ^a,c   Wang, Chih Ming ^a   Yuan, Guanghui ^c   Teng, Jinghua ^b   Zheludev, Nikolay I ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS RESEARCH AND ENGINEERING   (Singapore)

^c NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC PULSE; LENSES; PHOTONIC DEVICES; REFRACTIVE INDEX; TELLURIUM COMPOUNDS;

ADJUSTABLE PARAMETERS; DIFFRACTION-LIMITED RESOLUTION; NANO-MECHANICAL ACTUATION; OPTICAL COMPONENTS; OPTICAL STIMULATION; PHOTONIC COMPONENTS; REFLECTION AND TRANSMISSION; VARIABLE FOCAL LENGTH LENS;

PHASE CHANGE MATERIALS;

EID: 84951909187     PISSN: 17494885     EISSN: 17494893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphoton.2015.247     Document Type: Article

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