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most citedElectrically reconfigurable phase-change transmissive metasurface

50 citations · 107 across the 12 of their papers we have counts for

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physics.optics2026★ 2 cited

Increased endurance of nonvolatile photonics enabled by nanostructured phase-change materials

Jayita Dutta, Andrew Tang, Brian Mills +8

The rapid rise of artificial intelligence, and in-memory computing has reinvigorated research on scalable, energy-efficient, and reconfigurable photonic hardware. Non-volatile phas…

physics.optics2025★ 1 cited

2D Addressable Mid-infrared Metasurface Spatial Light Modulator

Cosmin-Constantin Popescu, Maarten Robbert Anton Peters, Oleg Maksimov +12

Active metasurfaces enable dynamic control of light for applications in beam steering, pixelated holography, and adaptive optics, but demonstrations of two-dimensional (2D) electri…

physics.optics2024★ 3 cited

Unravelling and circumventing failure mechanisms in chalcogenide optical phase change materials

Cosmin Constantin Popescu, Kiumars Aryana, Brian Mills +17

Chalcogenide optical phase change materials (PCMs) have garnered significant interest for their growing applications in programmable photonics, optical analog computing, active met…

physics.optics2024

Robust electrothermal switching of optical phase change materials through computer-aided adaptive pulse optimization

Parth Garud, Kiumars Aryana, Cosmin Constantin Popescu +6

Electrically tunable optical devices present diverse functionalities for manipulating electromagnetic waves by leveraging elements capable of reversibly switching between different…

physics.optics2023★ 1 cited

Highly-efficient fiber to Si-waveguide free-form coupler for foundry-scale silicon photonics

Luigi Ranno, Jia Xu Brian Sia, Cosmin Popescu +7

As silicon photonics transitions from research to commercial deployment, packaging solutions that efficiently couple light into highly-compact and functional sub-micron silicon wav…

physics.optics2023★ 50 cited

Electrically reconfigurable phase-change transmissive metasurface

Cosmin Constantin Popescu, Kiumars Aryana, Parth Garud +12

Programmable and reconfigurable optics hold significant potential for transforming a broad spectrum of applications, spanning space explorations to biomedical imaging, gas sensing,…

physics.optics2023★ 2 cited

An Open-Source Multi-functional Testing Platform for Optical Phase Change Materials

Cosmin-Constantin Popescu, Khoi Phuong Dao, Luigi Ranno +18

Owing to their unique tunable optical properties, chalcogenide phase change materials are increasingly being investigated for optics and photonics applications. However, in situ ch…

physics.optics2023

Nonvolatile Tuning of Bragg Structures Using Transparent Phase-Change Materials

Nicholas A. Nobile, Chuanyu Lian, Hongyi Sun +7

Bragg gratings offer high-performance filtering and routing of light on-chip through a periodic modulation of a waveguide's effective refractive index. Here, we model and experimen…

physics.optics2023★ 16 cited

Toward accurate thermal modeling of phase change material based photonic devices

Kiumars Aryana, Hyun Jung Kim, Cosmin-Constantin Popescu +5

Reconfigurable or programmable photonic devices are rapidly growing and have become an integral part of many optical systems. The ability to selectively modulate electromagnetic wa…

physics.optics2022★ 12 cited

Reconfigurable Application-Specific Photonic Integrated Circuit for solving Partial Differential Equations

Chen Shen, Nicola Peserico, Jiawei Meng +7

Solving mathematical equations faster and more efficiently has been a Holy Grail for centuries for scientists and engineers across all disciplines. While electronic digital circuit…

physics.optics2022★ 5 cited

Electrical Programmable Multi-Level Non-volatile Photonic Random-Access Memory

Jiawei Meng, Yaliang Gui, Behrouz Movahhed Nouri +11

Photonic Random-Access Memories (P-RAM) are an essential component for the on-chip non-von Neumann photonic computing by eliminating optoelectronic conversion losses in data links.…

physics.optics2021★ 15 cited

Ultra-compact nonvolatile phase shifter based on electrically reprogrammable transparent phase change materials

Carlos Ríos, Qingyang Du, Yifei Zhang +9

Energy-efficient programmable photonic integrated circuits (PICs) are the cornerstone of on-chip classical and quantum optical technologies. Optical phase shifters constitute the f…