Reconfigurable Multistate Optical Systems Enabled by VO₂ Phase Transitions.

ABSTRACT: Reconfigurable optical systems are the object of continuing, intensive research activities, as they hold great promise for realizing a new generation of compact, miniaturized, and flexible optical devices. However, current reconfigurable systems often tune only a single state variable triggered by an external stimulus, thus, leaving out many potential applications. Here we demonstrate a reconfigurable multistate optical system enabled by phase transitions in vanadium dioxide (VO₂). By controlling the phase-transition characteristics of VO₂ with simultaneous stimuli, the responses of the optical system can be reconfigured among multiple states. In particular, we show a quadruple-state dynamic plasmonic display that responds to both temperature tuning and hydrogen-dopin

SUBMITTER: Duan X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7678723 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature