Non-volatile electrically programmable integrated photonics with a 5-bit operation

R Chen, Z Fang, C Perez, F Miller, K Kumari… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Scalable programmable photonic integrated circuits (PICs) can potentially transform the
current state of classical and quantum optical information processing. However, traditional …

Non-volatile tunable optics by design: from chalcogenide phase-change materials to device structures

D Wang, L Zhao, S Yu, X Shen, JJ Wang, C Hu… - Materials Today, 2023 - Elsevier
Integration of chalcogenide phase-change materials (PCMs) with planar multilayer
structures, metasurfaces, waveguides and photonic integrated circuits has sparked …

Non‐Volatile Optical Switch Element Enabled by Low‐Loss Phase Change Material

X Yang, L Lu, Y Li, Y Wu, Z Li, J Chen… - Advanced Functional …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Mach–Zehnder interferometers (MZIs) integrated with phase‐change materials
have attracted great interest due to their low power consumption and ultra‐compact size …

Monolithic back-end-of-line integration of phase change materials into foundry-manufactured silicon photonics

M Wei, K Xu, B Tang, J Li, Y Yun, P Zhang… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Monolithic integration of novel materials without modifying the existing photonic component
library is crucial to advancing heterogeneous silicon photonic integrated circuits. Here we …

Seven bit nonvolatile electrically programmable photonics based on phase-change materials for image recognition

J Xia, T Wang, Z Wang, J Gong, Y Dong, R Yang… - ACS …, 2024 - ACS Publications
With the rapid development of the Internet of Things, how to efficiently store, transmit, and
process massive amounts of data has become a major challenge now. Optical neural …

Inverse design of compact nonvolatile reconfigurable silicon photonic devices with phase-change materials

M Wei, X Lin, K Xu, Y Wu, C Wang, Z Wang, K Lei… - …, 2024 - degruyter.com
In the development of silicon photonics, the continued downsizing of photonic integrated
circuits will further increase the integration density, which augments the functionality of …

Energy efficient photonic memory based on electrically programmable embedded III-V/Si memristors: switches and filters

S Cheung, B Tossoun, Y Yuan, Y Peng, Y Hu… - Communications …, 2024 - nature.com
Over the past few years, extensive work on optical neural networks has been investigated in
hopes of achieving orders of magnitude improvement in energy efficiency and compute …

Toward Accurate Thermal Modeling of Phase Change Material‐Based Photonic Devices

K Aryana, HJ Kim, CC Popescu, S Vitale, HB Bae… - Small, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Reconfigurable or programmable photonic devices are rapidly growing and have become
an integral part of many optical systems. The ability to selectively modulate electromagnetic …

Fabrication and integration of photonic devices for phase-change memory and neuromorphic computing

W Zhou, X Shen, X Yang, J Wang… - International Journal of …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
In the past decade, there has been tremendous progress in integrating chalcogenide phase-
change materials (PCMs) on the silicon photonic platform for non-volatile memory to …

Deterministic quasi-continuous tuning of phase-change material integrated on a high-volume 300-mm silicon photonics platform

R Chen, V Tara, M Choi, J Dutta, J Sim, J Ye… - npj …, 2024 - nature.com
Programmable photonic integrated circuits (PICs) consisting of reconfigurable on-chip
optical components have been creating new paradigms in various applications, such as …