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

Zhaoyi Li; You Zhou; Hao Qi; Qiwei Pan; Zhen Zhang; Norman Nan Shi; Ming Lu; Aaron Stein; Christopher Y Li; Shriram Ramanathan; Nanfang Yu

doi:10.1002/adma.201601204

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

Adv Mater. 2016 Nov;28(41):9117-9125. doi: 10.1002/adma.201601204. Epub 2016 Aug 30.

Authors

Zhaoyi Li¹, You Zhou², Hao Qi³, Qiwei Pan³, Zhen Zhang⁴, Norman Nan Shi¹, Ming Lu⁵, Aaron Stein⁵, Christopher Y Li³, Shriram Ramanathan⁶, Nanfang Yu⁷

Affiliations

¹ Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics, Columbia University, New York, NY, 10027, USA.
² Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 02138, USA.
³ Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA.
⁴ School of Materials Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, 47907, USA.
⁵ Center for Functional Nanomaterials, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY, 11973, USA.
⁶ School of Materials Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, 47907, USA. shriram@purdue.edu.
⁷ Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics, Columbia University, New York, NY, 10027, USA. ny2214@columbia.edu.

PMID: 27573540
DOI: 10.1002/adma.201601204

Abstract

The electron-doping-induced phase transition of a prototypical perovskite SmNiO₃ 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 SmNiO₃ . Modulation of a narrow band of light is demonstrated using plasmonic metasurfaces integrated with SmNiO₃ .

Keywords: correlated oxides; metamaterials; optical modulation; perovskites; phase-transition materials.