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Optimized design of nano-photonic devices for temperature self-regulating on vanadium dioxide thin films
Ist Teil von
Journal of optics (2010), 2024-02, Vol.26 (2), p.25101
Ort / Verlag
IOP Publishing
Erscheinungsjahr
2024
Quelle
Alma/SFX Local Collection
Beschreibungen/Notizen
Abstract
Phase change materials can enable temperature self-regulation due to their drastic changes in optical properties accompanying the phase transition. Significant reduction of the optical absorption after the transition is the key ingredient for an enhanced regulating performance. However, the absorptivity of unpatterned vanadium dioxide (VO
2
) thin films can hardly be reduced after phase transition at visual-to-infrared band. In this work, we combine the direct binary search (DBS) and particle swarm optimization (PSO) algorithms for an optimized design of temperature self-regulating nano-photonic devices on VO
2
thin films. For a given incident wavelength, a pixelated structure is firstly inverse-designed by the DBS algorithm which maximizes the absorption contrast before and after the transition. To overcome fabrication challenges as pixel size is at deep sub-wavelength scale, the pixelated structure can then be replaced by geometric shapes which are more tractable in manufacturing processes. The geometrical parameters are optimized by the PSO algorithm where our optimized device brings the absorptivity down to 33% after the transition. These results provide an effective way for the inverse design of optimized nano-photonic structures based on phase change materials.