Nonvolatile and reconfigurable tuning of surface lattice resonances using phase-change Ge2Sb2Te5 thin films

Abstract

We propose a novel configuration for nonvolatile and reconfigurable tuning of surface lattice resonances (SLRs) based on thin films of phase-change material Ge2Sb2Te5 (GST). The configuration is composed of gold nanorod array embedded in a thin GST film. Results show that, an extremely wide SLR wavelength tuning range reaching 1600 nm, large tuning figure of merit of 21, and high SLR quality factors of 47 and 17 can be achieved in the mid-infrared regime when GST transits from the amorphous state into the crystalline state. The effects of the GST layer thicknesses on the SLR tuning performance are discussed, and the performances of several modified configurations are compared. We expect this work will advance the engineering of SLR tuning based on phase-change materials and promote its applications especially in nanolasing and narrowband filtering.

Keywords

• Plasmonics
• Surface lattice resonance
• Reconfigurable tuning
• Phase-change materials
• Mid-infrared