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Non-volatile phase-change materials with large optical contrast are essential for future tunable nanophotonics. Antimony trisulfide (Sb2S3) has recently gained popularity in this field due to its low absorption in the visible spectral…

This article proposes a concept for dynamically reconfigurable distributed microwave circuits by leveraging the abrupt conductivity transition in phase-change materials (PCM). Metallic surface-inclusions (<<$\lambda$) are embedded in the…

Applied Physics · Physics 2021-06-11 David Connelly , Jonathan Chisum

Periodic or gradient subwavelength structures are basic configurations of photonic crystals and metamaterials. The measured linear losses of those nanophotonic devices are well-beyond theoretical predictions. Nanofabrication related…

The modular multilevel converter (MMC) is a promising converter technology for various highvoltage high-power applications. The reason to that is low-distortion output quantities can be achieved with low average switching frequencies per…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-01-03 Khushbu Saradva , Meeta Matnani , Tapankumar Trivedi

The problem of losses in resonators is a key issue in the design and use of modern plasmonic and photonic meta-devices. We propose a spectroscopic method for determining material and radiation losses in structures with bound states in the…

Tunable plasmonic resonances across the visible and near infrared spectra have provided novel ways to develop next-generation nanophotonic devices. In this study, by using optothermally controllable phase-changing material (PCM), we…

Optics · Physics 2017-12-05 Burak Gerislioglu , Arash Ahmadivand , Nezih Pala

Topological photonic crystals (PCs) can support robust edge modes to transport electromagnetic energy in an efficient manner. Such edge modes are the eigenmodes of the PDE operator for a joint optical structure formed by connecting together…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-07-30 Chiu-Yen Kao , Junshan Lin , Braxton Osting

The phase-change material antimony sulfide (Sb$_2$S$_3$) relies on rapid and reversible phase transitions between crystalline and amorphous states, which are critical for their performance in data storage and photonics applications. In this…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-05-21 Souvik Chakraborty , Wen-Qing Li , Yun Liu

Millimeter wave (mmWave) is a key technology for fifth-generation (5G) and beyond communications. Hybrid beamforming has been proposed for large-scale antenna systems in mmWave communications. Existing hybrid beamforming designs based on…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-07 Chia-Ho Kuo , Hsin-Yuan Chang , Ronald Y. Chang , Wei-Ho Chung

Ge2Sb2Te5 and related phase change materials are highly unusual in that they can be readily transformed between amorphous and crystalline states using very fast melt, quench, anneal cycles, although the resulting states are extremely long…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-05-20 Saikat Mukhopadhyay , Jifeng Sun , Alaska Subedi , Theo Siegrist , David J. Singh

Phase-change materials of the (GeTe)n (Sb2Te3) (GST) system are of high relevance in memory storage and energy conversion applications due to their fast-switching speed, high data retention, and tunable properties. Here, we report on a fast…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-07-18 M. Zhezhu , A. Vasil'ev , M. Yapryntsev , E. Ghalumyan , D. A. Ghazaryan , H. Gharagulyan

Phase change memory has been developed into a mature technology capable of storing information in a fast and non-volatile way, with potential for neuromorphic computing applications. However, its future impact in electronics depends…

Phase Change Memory (PCM) is an attractive candidate for main memory as it offers non-volatility and zero leakage power, while providing higher cell densities, longer data retention time, and higher capacity scaling compared to DRAM. In…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2021-07-27 Aditya Narayan , Yvain Thonnart , Pascal Vivet , Ayse K. Coskun , Ajay Joshi

Optical metasurfaces enable to engineer the electromagnetic space and control light propagation at an unprecedented level, offering a powerful tool to achieve modulation of light over multiple physical dimensions. Here, we demonstrate a…

Optics · Physics 2022-11-02 Tingting Liu , Zhou Han , Junyi Duan , Shuyuan Xiao

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

Photonic computing shows promise for transformative advancements in machine learning (ML) acceleration, offering ultra-fast speed, massive parallelism, and high energy efficiency. However, current photonic tensor core (PTC) designs based on…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2024-01-01 Jiaqi Gu , Hanqing Zhu , Chenghao Feng , Zixuan Jiang , Ray T. Chen , David Z. Pan

Multi-photon states can be produced in multiple parametric down conversion (PDC) processes. The nonlinear crystal in such a case is pumped with high power. In theory, the more populated these states are, the deeper is the conflict with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 M. Stobińska , W. Laskowski , M. Wieśniak , M. Żukowski

Scaling-up optical quantum technologies requires to combine highly efficient multi-photon sources and integrated waveguide components. Here, we interface these scalable platforms: a quantum dot based multi-photon source and a reconfigurable…

Phase-change memory devices have found applications in in-memory computing where the physical attributes of these devices are exploited to compute in place without the need to shuttle data between memory and processing units. However,…

The integration of computing with memory is essential for distributed, massively parallel, and adaptive architectures such as neural networks in artificial intelligence (AI). Accelerating AI can be achieved through photonic computing, but…