A nonvolatile phase‐change metamaterial color display
Chalcogenide phase‐change materials, which exhibit a marked difference in their electrical and optical properties when in their amorphous and crystalline phases and can be switched between these phases quickly and repeatedly, are traditionally exploited to deliver nonvolatile data storage in the for...
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| author | Carrillo, SG-C Trimby, L Au, Y-Y Nagareddy, VK Rodriguez-Hernandez, G Hosseini, P Rios, C Bhaskaran, H Wright, CD |
| author_facet | Carrillo, SG-C Trimby, L Au, Y-Y Nagareddy, VK Rodriguez-Hernandez, G Hosseini, P Rios, C Bhaskaran, H Wright, CD |
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| description | Chalcogenide phase‐change materials, which exhibit a marked difference in their electrical and optical properties when in their amorphous and crystalline phases and can be switched between these phases quickly and repeatedly, are traditionally exploited to deliver nonvolatile data storage in the form of rewritable optical disks and electrical phase‐change memories. However, exciting new potential applications are now emerging in areas such as integrated phase‐change photonics, phase‐change optical metamaterials/metasurfaces, and optoelectronic displays. Here, ideas from these last two fields are fused together to deliver a novel concept, namely a switchable phase‐change metamaterial/metasurface resonant absorber having nonvolatile color generating capabilities. With the phase‐change layer, here GeTe, in the crystalline phase, the resonant absorber can be tuned to selectively absorb the red, green, and blue spectral bands of the visible spectrum, so generating vivid cyan, magenta, and yellow pixels. When the phase‐change layer is switched into the amorphous phase, the resonant absorption is suppressed and a flat, pseudowhite reflectance results. Thus, a route to the potential development is opened‐up of nonvolatile, phase‐change metamaterial color displays and color electronic signage.
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:3843157f-fcb2-432e-bbaa-d0605fd8ac842022-03-26T13:49:05ZA nonvolatile phase‐change metamaterial color displayJournal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:3843157f-fcb2-432e-bbaa-d0605fd8ac84EnglishSymplectic ElementsWiley2019Carrillo, SG-CTrimby, LAu, Y-YNagareddy, VKRodriguez-Hernandez, GHosseini, PRios, CBhaskaran, HWright, CDChalcogenide phase‐change materials, which exhibit a marked difference in their electrical and optical properties when in their amorphous and crystalline phases and can be switched between these phases quickly and repeatedly, are traditionally exploited to deliver nonvolatile data storage in the form of rewritable optical disks and electrical phase‐change memories. However, exciting new potential applications are now emerging in areas such as integrated phase‐change photonics, phase‐change optical metamaterials/metasurfaces, and optoelectronic displays. Here, ideas from these last two fields are fused together to deliver a novel concept, namely a switchable phase‐change metamaterial/metasurface resonant absorber having nonvolatile color generating capabilities. With the phase‐change layer, here GeTe, in the crystalline phase, the resonant absorber can be tuned to selectively absorb the red, green, and blue spectral bands of the visible spectrum, so generating vivid cyan, magenta, and yellow pixels. When the phase‐change layer is switched into the amorphous phase, the resonant absorption is suppressed and a flat, pseudowhite reflectance results. Thus, a route to the potential development is opened‐up of nonvolatile, phase‐change metamaterial color displays and color electronic signage. |
| spellingShingle | Carrillo, SG-C Trimby, L Au, Y-Y Nagareddy, VK Rodriguez-Hernandez, G Hosseini, P Rios, C Bhaskaran, H Wright, CD A nonvolatile phase‐change metamaterial color display |
| title | A nonvolatile phase‐change metamaterial color display |
| title_full | A nonvolatile phase‐change metamaterial color display |
| title_fullStr | A nonvolatile phase‐change metamaterial color display |
| title_full_unstemmed | A nonvolatile phase‐change metamaterial color display |
| title_short | A nonvolatile phase‐change metamaterial color display |
| title_sort | nonvolatile phase change metamaterial color display |
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