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Cover Picture: Phys. Status Solidi RRL 10/2010
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
physica status solidi (rrl) – rapid research letters
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.786
H-Index - 68
eISSN - 1862-6270
pISSN - 1862-6254
DOI - 10.1002/pssr.201090013
Subject(s) - cover (algebra) , medicine , psychology , engineering , mechanical engineering
Researchers from University of Southampton and National Taiwan University propose that the phase‐change technology underpinning today's rewritable optical disks and phase‐change memories can also be used for high contrast plasmonic switching and modulation in future highly‐integrated nanophotonic devices. In their Letter on pp. 274–276 the authors present evidence that photo‐induced changes in chalcogenide phase‐change glasses provide a mechanism for transient and bistable plasmonic modulation via dramatic, reversible changes in refractive index, offering a new paradigm for nanoscale manipulation of light using commercially established media.