A Switchable Mid‐Infrared Plasmonic Perfect Absorber with Multispectral Thermal Imaging Capability

Andreas Tittl, Ann‐Katrin U. Michel, Martin Schäferling, Xinghui Yin, Behrad Gholipour, Long Cui, Matthias Wuttig, Thomas Taubner, Frank Neubrech

Advanced Materials · 2015 · 613 citations · 48 references

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Abstract

A switchable perfect absorber with multispectral thermal imaging capability is presented. Aluminum nanoantenna arrays above a germanium antimony telluride (GST) spacer layer and aluminum mirror provide efficient wavelength-tunable absorption in the mid-infrared. Utilizing the amorphous-to-crystalline phase transition in GST, this device offers switchable absorption with strong reflectance contrast at resonance and large phase-change-induced spectral shifts.

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