Correlated Perovskites as a New Platform for Super-Broadband-Tunable Photonics.

Li, Zhaoyi; Zhou, You; Qi, Hao; Pan, Qiwei; Zhang, Zhen; Shi, Norman Nan; Lu, Ming; Stein, Aaron et al. · Adv Mater · 2016

basic_science · Level V

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Abstract

The electron-doping-induced phase transition of a prototypical perovskite SmNiO<sub>3</sub> induces a large and non-volatile optical refractive-index change and has great potential for active-photonic-device applications. Strong optical modulation from the visible to the mid-infrared is demonstrated using thin-film SmNiO<sub>3</sub> . Modulation of a narrow band of light is demonstrated using plasmonic metasurfaces integrated with SmNiO<sub>3</sub> .