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Multilevel Absorbers via the Integration of Undoped and Tungsten-Doped Multilayered Vanadium Dioxide Thin Films
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- Authors
- Byoungsu Ko, Ji-Yeon Chae, Trevon Badloe, Hongyoon Kim, Soo-Jung Kim, Sung-Hoon Hong, Taejong Paik, Junsuk Rho
- Issue Date
- 2022-01
- Citation
- ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, v.14, no.1, pp.1404-1412
- ISSN
- 1944-8244
- Publisher
- American Chemical Society (ACS)
- Language
- English
- Type
- Journal Article
- Abstract
- Reconfigurable light absorbers have attracted much attention by providing additional optical responses and expanding the number of degrees of freedom in security applications. Fabry-P챔rot absorbers based on phase change materials with tunable properties can be implemented over large scales without the need for additional steps such as lithography, while exhibiting reconfigurable optical responses. However, a fundamental limitation of widely used phase change materials such as vanadium dioxide and germanium-antimony-tellurium-based chalcogenide glasses is that they have only two distinct phases; therefore, only two different states of optical properties are available. Here, we experimentally demonstrate active multilevel absorbers that are tuned by controlling the external temperature. This is produced by creating large-scale lithography-free multilayer structures with both undoped and tungsten-doped solution-processed monoclinic-phase vanadium dioxide thin films. The doping of vanadium dioxide with tungsten allows for the modulation of the phase-transition temperature, which results in an extra degree of freedom and therefore an additional step for the tunable properties. The proposed multilevel absorber is designed and characterized both numerically and experimentally. Such large-scale multilevel tunable absorbers realized with nanoparticle-based solution fabrication techniques are expected to open the way for advanced thermo-optical cryptographic devices based on tunable reflective coloration and near-infrared absorption.
- KSP Keywords
- Chalcogenide glass(ChG), Degrees of freedom(DOF), Fabrication techniques, Near-Infrared(NIR), Phase Change Material(PCM), Phase-transition temperature, Solution-processed, Thermo-optical, Tunable Absorbers, Tunable properties, Vanadium dioxide thin film