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Recent advances in nanoscale science and technology provide possibilities to directly self-assemble and integrate functional circuit elements within the wiring scheme of devices with potentially unique architectures. Electroionic resistive…

A new mechanism for memristive switching in 2D materials is through electric-field controllable electronic/structural phase transitions, but these devices have not outperformed status quo 2D memristors. Here, we report a high-performance…

We demonstrate non-volatile optical functionality by embedding multi-layer $HfO_2/Al_2O_3$ memristors with III-V/Si photonics. The wafer-bonded III-V/Si memristor facilitates non-volatile optical functionality for a variety of devices such…

Enhancing the switching speed of oxide-based memristive devices at a low voltage level is crucial for their use as non-volatile memory and their integration into emerging computing paradigms such as neuromorphic computing. Efforts to…

Highly efficient information processing in brain is based on processing and memory components called synapses, whose output is dependent on the history of the signals passed through them. Here we have developed an artificial synapse with…

Applied Physics · Physics 2021-12-28 Pan Wang , Mazhar E. Nasir , Alexey V. Krasavin , Wayne Dickson , Anatoly V. Zayats

The primary mechanism of optical memristive devices relies on the phase transitions between amorphous-crystalline states. The slow or energy hungry amorphous-crystalline transitions in optical phase-change materials are detrimental to the…

Progress in high-performance computing demands significant advances in memory technology. Among novel memory technologies that promise efficient device operation on a sub-ns timescale, resistance switching between charge ordered phases of…

Implementing on-chip non-volatile optical memories has long been an actively pursued goal, promising significant enhancements in the capability and energy efficiency of photonic integrated circuits. Here, a novel optical memory has been…

Non-volatile resistive switching is demonstrated in memristors with nanocrystalline molybdenum disulfide (MoS$_2$) as the active material. The vertical heterostructures consist of silicon, vertically aligned MoS$_2$ and chrome / gold metal…

Optical phase change materials (O-PCMs), a unique group of materials featuring drastic optical property contrast upon solid-state phase transition, have found widespread adoption in photonic switches and routers, reconfigurable meta-optics,…

Memristive devices are promising elements for energy-efficient neuromorphic computing and future artificial intelligence systems. For diffusive memristors, the device state switching occurs because of the sequential formation and…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-02-14 D. P Pattnaik , Y. Ushakov , Z. Zhou , P. Borisov , M. D Cropper , U. W. Wijayantha , A. G. Balanov , S. E Savel'ev

We introduce phase-change material Ge2Sb2Te5 (GST) into metal-insulator-metal (MIM) waveguide systems to realize chipscale plasmonic modulators and switches in the telecommunication band. Benefitting from the high contrast of optical…

Applied Physics · Physics 2019-11-21 Zhaojian Zhang , Junbo Yang , Wei Bai , Yunxin Han , Xin He , Jingjing Zhang , Jie Huang , Dingbo Chen , Siyu Xu , Wanlin Xie

One of the most widely used active materials for phase-change memories (PCM), the ternary stoichiometric compound Ge$_2$Sb$_2$Te$_5$ (GST), has a low crystallization temperature of around 150$^\circ$C. One solution to achieve higher…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-09-11 Robin Miquel , Thomas Cabout , Olga Cueto , Benoît Sklénard , Mathis Plapp

The superior density of passive analog-grade memristive crossbars may enable storing large synaptic weight matrices directly on specialized neuromorphic chips, thus avoiding costly off-chip communication. To ensure efficient use of such…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2019-07-01 Hyungjin Kim , Hussein Nili , Mahmood Mahmoodi , Dmitri Strukov

We report gate-tunable memristive switching in patterned LaAlO3/SrTiO3 interfaces at cryogenic temperatures. The application of voltages in the order of a few volts to the back gate of the device allows controlling and switching-on and -off…

All-optical active plasmonic devices are of fundamental importance for designing efficient nanophotonic circuits. We theoretically propose and numerically investigate an active plasmonic device made up of a nonlinear epsilon-near-zero…

Optics · Physics 2013-05-29 Alessandro Ciattoni , Carlo Rizza , Elia Palange

We propose here a new platform for a realization of novel nonvolatile optical switching devices that takes an advantage of high field confinement provided by plasmonics and multi-state programming capabilities of chalcogenide phase change…

Optics · Physics 2021-12-20 Jacek Gosciniak

Metasurfaces have become a cornerstone of flat-optics, enabling precise control over light propagation through nanoengineered materials. Dynamic and reconfigurable metalenses are key to next-generation flat-optics platforms, yet their…

Optics · Physics 2025-11-27 Dipika Rani Nath , Sadid Muneer , Sajid Muhaimin Choudhury

Phase-change materials (PCMs)-based integrated photonic memory offers a viable pathway for the development of neuromorphic computing chip. The sizable optical contrast in the telecom band between amorphous and crystalline phases of PCM, in…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-12 Xueyang Shen , Ruixuan Chu , Ding Xu , Yuan Gao , Wen Zhou , Wei Zhang

We numerically propose an all-dielectric hybrid metamaterial (MM) to realize all-optical switch and logic gates in shortwave infrared (SWIR) band. Such MM consists of one silicon rod and one Ge2Sb2Te5 (GST) rod pair. Utilizing the…