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Reconfigurable ultraviolet and high-energy-visible dielectric metamaterials

Reconfigurable ultraviolet and high-energy-visible dielectric metamaterials
Reconfigurable ultraviolet and high-energy-visible dielectric metamaterials
Photonic materials with tuneable and switchable ultraviolet (UV) to high-energy-visible (HEV) optical properties would benefit applications in sensing, high-density optical memory, beam-steering, adaptive optics and light modulation. Here, for the first time, we demonstrate a non-volatile switchable dielectric metamaterial operating in the UV-HEV spectral range. Nano-grating metamaterials in a layered composite of low-loss ZnS/SiO2 and the chalcogenide phase-change medium germanium antimony telluride (Ge2Sb2Te5) exhibit reflection resonances at UV-HEV wavelengths that are substantially modified by light-induced (amorphous-crystalline) phase transitions in the chalcogenide layer. Despite the presence of the lossy GST, resonance quality factors up to Q~15 are ensured by the transparency (low losses) of ZnS/SiO2 in the UV-HEV spectral range and values of Q increase as the refractive index of Ge2Sb2Te5 decreases, upon crystallization. Notably however, this switching leaves resonance spectral positions unchanged.
1530-6984
1643-1648
Gholipour, Behrad
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Piccinotti, Davide
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Karvounis, Artemios
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MacDonald, Kevin F.
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Zheludev, Nikolai
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Gholipour, Behrad
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Karvounis, Artemios
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MacDonald, Kevin F.
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Zheludev, Nikolai
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Gholipour, Behrad, Piccinotti, Davide, Karvounis, Artemios, MacDonald, Kevin F. and Zheludev, Nikolai (2019) Reconfigurable ultraviolet and high-energy-visible dielectric metamaterials. Nano Letters, 19 (3), 1643-1648. (doi:10.1021/acs.nanolett.8b04576).

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Photonic materials with tuneable and switchable ultraviolet (UV) to high-energy-visible (HEV) optical properties would benefit applications in sensing, high-density optical memory, beam-steering, adaptive optics and light modulation. Here, for the first time, we demonstrate a non-volatile switchable dielectric metamaterial operating in the UV-HEV spectral range. Nano-grating metamaterials in a layered composite of low-loss ZnS/SiO2 and the chalcogenide phase-change medium germanium antimony telluride (Ge2Sb2Te5) exhibit reflection resonances at UV-HEV wavelengths that are substantially modified by light-induced (amorphous-crystalline) phase transitions in the chalcogenide layer. Despite the presence of the lossy GST, resonance quality factors up to Q~15 are ensured by the transparency (low losses) of ZnS/SiO2 in the UV-HEV spectral range and values of Q increase as the refractive index of Ge2Sb2Te5 decreases, upon crystallization. Notably however, this switching leaves resonance spectral positions unchanged.

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Accepted/In Press date: 4 January 2019
Published date: 5 February 2019

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Local EPrints ID: 428163
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/428163
ISSN: 1530-6984
PURE UUID: 4359a2db-3196-4419-8bb1-207121a52aa6
ORCID for Kevin F. MacDonald: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-3877-2976
ORCID for Nikolai Zheludev: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-1013-6636

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Last modified: 16 Mar 2024 07:34

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Author: Behrad Gholipour
Author: Davide Piccinotti
Author: Artemios Karvounis
Author: Kevin F. MacDonald ORCID iD
Author: Nikolai Zheludev ORCID iD

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