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Switchable material could enable new memory chips.»
The secret to
the switchable material, which scientists say could have a variety of uses, is electronically twisting molecules arrayed on the surface.
«You could use these types of
switchable materials alongside the current silicon technology used in cell phones or laptops», says Van Heumen.
Not exact matches
The question is — and it's a question at this point — can we learn from these novel biophotonic mechanisms that have evolved over millions of years of natural selection new approaches to making tunable and
switchable photonic
materials to more efficiently encode, transmit, and decode information via light?»
In their proof - of - principle experiment, the researchers used germanium antimony telluride (GST)-- the kind of phase - change
material found in CDs and DVDs — to make an improved
switchable metasurface that can block or transmit particular wavelengths of light at the command of light pulses.