Electrically Driven Programmable Phase-Change Meta-Switch Reaching 80% Efficiency

Sajjad Abdollahramezani, Omid Hemmatyar, Mohammad Taghinejad, Hossein Taghinejad, Alex Krasnok, Ali A. Eftekhar, Christian Teichrib, Sanchit Deshmukh, Mostafa El-Sayed, Eric Pop, Matthias Wuttig, Andrea Alù, Wenshan Cai, and Ali Adibi1∗ School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, 778 Atlantic Drive NW, Atlanta, Georgia 30332-0250, United States Photonics Initiative, Advanced Science Research Center, City University of New York, New York, NY 10031, United States Department of Electrical Engineering, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Precourt Institute for Energy, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, United States Laser Dynamics Laboratory, School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, 30332-0400, United States George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, 30332-0405, United States Physikalisches Institut IA, RWTH Aachen, Sommerfeldstrasse 14, 52074 Aachen, Germany Physics Program, Graduate Center, City University of New York, New York, NY 10016, United States and School of Materials Science and Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, 801 Ferst Drive NW, Atlanta, Georgia 30332-0295, United States (Dated: April 27, 2021)