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A Photonic Switch Based on a Hybrid Combination of Metallic Nanoholes and Phase-change Vanadium Dioxide

Overview of attention for article published in Scientific Reports, July 2018
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Title
A Photonic Switch Based on a Hybrid Combination of Metallic Nanoholes and Phase-change Vanadium Dioxide
Published in
Scientific Reports, July 2018
DOI 10.1038/s41598-018-29476-6
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Miao Sun, Mohammad Taha, Sumeet Walia, Madhu Bhaskaran, Sharath Sriram, William Shieh, Ranjith Rajasekharan Unnithan

Abstract

A photonic switch is an integral part of optical telecommunication systems. A plasmonic bandpass filter integrated with materials exhibiting phase transition can be used as a thermally reconfigurable optical switch. This paper presents the design and demonstration of a broadband photonic switch based on an aluminium nanohole array on quartz utilising the semiconductor-to-metal phase transition of vanadium dioxide. The fabricated switch shows an operating range over 650 nm around the optical communication C, L, and U band with maximum 20%, 23% and 26% transmission difference in switching in the C band, L band, and U band, respectively. The extinction ratio is around 5 dB in the entire operation range. This architecture is a precursor for developing micron-size photonic switches and ultra-compact modulators for thin film photonics.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 45 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 10 22%
Student > Master 8 18%
Student > Doctoral Student 3 7%
Researcher 3 7%
Student > Bachelor 2 4%
Other 6 13%
Unknown 13 29%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Engineering 14 31%
Materials Science 7 16%
Physics and Astronomy 6 13%
Earth and Planetary Sciences 1 2%
Computer Science 1 2%
Other 1 2%
Unknown 15 33%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 5. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 10 August 2018.
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#6,371,065
of 23,306,612 outputs
Outputs from Scientific Reports
#43,286
of 125,968 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#109,042
of 330,236 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Scientific Reports
#1,328
of 3,596 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 23,306,612 research outputs across all sources so far. This one has received more attention than most of these and is in the 72nd percentile.
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