Versatile spaceborne photonics with chalcogenide phase-change materials.
dc.contributor.author | Kim, HJ | |
dc.contributor.author | Julian, M | |
dc.contributor.author | Williams, C | |
dc.contributor.author | Bombara, D | |
dc.contributor.author | Hu, J | |
dc.contributor.author | Gu, T | |
dc.contributor.author | Aryana, K | |
dc.contributor.author | Sauti, G | |
dc.contributor.author | Humphreys, W | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2024-08-30T10:20:00Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2024-02-20 | |
dc.date.updated | 2024-08-30T09:19:49Z | |
dc.description.abstract | Recent growth in space systems has seen increasing capabilities packed into smaller and lighter Earth observation and deep space mission spacecraft. Phase-change materials (PCMs) are nonvolatile, reconfigurable, fast-switching, and have recently shown a high degree of space radiation tolerance, thereby making them an attractive materials platform for spaceborne photonics applications. They promise robust, lightweight, and energy-efficient reconfigurable optical systems whose functions can be dynamically defined on-demand and on-orbit to deliver enhanced science or mission support in harsh environments on lean power budgets. This comment aims to discuss the recent advances in rapidly growing PCM research and its potential to transition from conventional terrestrial optoelectronics materials platforms to versatile spaceborne photonic materials platforms for current and next-generation space and science missions. Materials International Space Station Experiment-14 (MISSE-14) mission-flown PCMs outside of the International Space Station (ISS) and key results and NASA examples are highlighted to provide strong evidence of the applicability of spaceborne photonics. | en_GB |
dc.identifier.citation | Vol. 10, No. 1, article 20 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41526-024-00358-8 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10871/137287 | |
dc.identifier | ORCID: 0000-0002-6432-6515 (Williams, Calum) | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.publisher | Nature Research | en_GB |
dc.relation.url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/38378811 | en_GB |
dc.rights | © 2024 The authors. Open Access: This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. This is a U.S. Government work and not under copyright protection in the US; foreign copyright protection may apply 2024, corrected publication 2024 | en_GB |
dc.subject | Aerospace engineering | en_GB |
dc.subject | Materials for optics | en_GB |
dc.subject | Optical materials and structures | en_GB |
dc.title | Versatile spaceborne photonics with chalcogenide phase-change materials. | en_GB |
dc.type | Article | en_GB |
dc.date.available | 2024-08-30T10:20:00Z | |
dc.identifier.issn | 2373-8065 | |
exeter.article-number | 20 | |
exeter.place-of-publication | United States | |
dc.description | This is the final version. Available on open access from Nature Research via the DOI in this record. | en_GB |
dc.description | Data availability: The data that support the findings of this study are available from the corresponding author upon reasonable request. | en_GB |
dc.identifier.journal | npj Microgravity | en_GB |
dc.rights.uri | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | en_GB |
dcterms.dateAccepted | 2024-01-24 | |
rioxxterms.version | VoR | en_GB |
rioxxterms.licenseref.startdate | 2024-02-20 | |
rioxxterms.type | Journal Article/Review | en_GB |
refterms.dateFCD | 2024-08-30T10:16:20Z | |
refterms.versionFCD | VoR | |
refterms.dateFOA | 2024-08-30T10:21:03Z | |
refterms.panel | B | en_GB |
refterms.dateFirstOnline | 2024-02-20 |
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