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ArticleNature communications2024

Reconfigurable image processing metasurfaces with phase-change materials.

Michele Cotrufo, Shaban B Sulejman, Lukas Wesemann, Md Ataur Rahman, Madhu Bhaskaran, Ann Roberts, Andrea Alù

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Article in Nature communications, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 32 papers.

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7 authors.

Michele Cotrufo *Photonics Initiative, Advanced Science Research Center, City University of New York, New York, NY, 10031, USA. mcotrufo@optics.rochester.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9931-1279
Shaban B Sulejman *ARC Centre of Excellence for Transformative Meta-Optical Systems, School of Physics, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, 3010, Australia.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0992-1095
Lukas Wesemann *ARC Centre of Excellence for Transformative Meta-Optical Systems, School of Physics, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, 3010, Australia.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9142-1342
Md Ataur RahmanFunctional Materials and Microsystems Research Group and the Micro Nano Research Facility, RMIT University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.
Madhu BhaskaranFunctional Materials and Microsystems Research Group and the Micro Nano Research Facility, RMIT University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.
Ann RobertsARC Centre of Excellence for Transformative Meta-Optical Systems, School of Physics, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, 3010, Australia.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4295-9730
Andrea AlùPhotonics Initiative, Advanced Science Research Center, City University of New York, New York, NY, 10031, USA. aalu@gc.cuny.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4297-5274

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Optical metasurfaces have enabled analog computing and image processing within sub-wavelength footprints, and with reduced power consumption and faster speeds. While various image processing metasurfaces have been demonstrated, most of the considered devices are static and lack reconfigurability. Yet, the ability to dynamically reconfigure processing operations is key for metasurfaces to be used within practical computing systems. Here, we demonstrate a passive edge-detection metasurface operating in the near-infrared regime whose response can be drastically modified by temperature variations smaller than 10 °C around a CMOS-compatible temperature of 65 °C. Such reconfigurability is achieved by leveraging the insulator-to-metal phase transition of a thin layer of vanadium dioxide, which strongly alters the metasurface nonlocal response. Importantly, this reconfigurability is accompanied by performance metrics-such as numerical aperture, efficiency, isotropy, and polarization-independence - close to optimal, and it is combined with a simple geometry compatible with large-scale manufacturing. Our work paves the way to a new generation of ultra-compact, tunable and passive devices for all-optical computation, with potential applications in augmented reality, remote sensing and bio-medical imaging.

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