Nature Communications (Feb 2021)

Electromechanically reconfigurable optical nano-kirigami

  • Shanshan Chen,
  • Zhiguang Liu,
  • Huifeng Du,
  • Chengchun Tang,
  • Chang-Yin Ji,
  • Baogang Quan,
  • Ruhao Pan,
  • Lechen Yang,
  • Xinhao Li,
  • Changzhi Gu,
  • Xiangdong Zhang,
  • Yugui Yao,
  • Junjie Li,
  • Nicholas X. Fang,
  • Jiafang Li

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-21565-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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The authors present on-chip and electromechanically reconfigurable nanokirigami with optical functionalities. 3D deformations are achieved via attractive electrostatic forces between a gold nanostructure layer and silicon substrate, resulting in optical reconfigurations with high modulation contrast and small unit size.