TY - JOUR
T1 - Geometrically Reconfigurable, 2D, All-Organic Photonic Integrated Circuits Made from Two Mechanically and Optically Dissimilar Crystals
AU - Ravi, Jada
AU - Kumar, Avulu Vinod
AU - Karothu, Durga Prasad
AU - Annadhasan, Mari
AU - Naumov, Panče
AU - Chandrasekar, Rajadurai
N1 - Funding Information:
R.C. thanks SERB‐New Delhi (CRG‐2018/001551) and University of Hyderabad‐Institution of Eminence Scheme (UoH‐IoE) [MHRD (F11/9/2019‐U3(A)] for research funding. J.R. thanks the UGC‐New Delhi for a Senior Research Fellowship. D.P.K. and P.N. thank New York University Abu Dhabi for the financial support. This research was partially carried out using the Core Technology Platform resources at New York University Abu Dhabi.
Funding Information:
R.C. thanks SERB-New Delhi (CRG-2018/001551) and University of Hyderabad-Institution of Eminence Scheme (UoH-IoE) [MHRD (F11/9/2019-U3(A)] for research funding. J.R. thanks the UGC-New Delhi for a Senior Research Fellowship. D.P.K. and P.N. thank New York University Abu Dhabi for the financial support. This research was partially carried out using the Core Technology Platform resources at New York University Abu Dhabi.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 Wiley-VCH GmbH
PY - 2021/10/20
Y1 - 2021/10/20
N2 - With the rising concerns about global cybersecurity, safe data transduction that would be impervious to cyber attacks necessitates an immediate shift from electron-based to light-based devices. Here, the construction of silicon-free, all-organic photonic integrated circuits by micromanipulation of organic crystals of two mechanically different materials with complementary optical properties, one of which is plastically bendable, is described. The resulting optical circuits are endowed with mechanical reconfiguration at two levels: first, the individual components can be processed into arbitrary shape before integration into the circuit, and second, the circuit itself is reconfigurable even after it is fabricated. The results do not only demonstrate the infinite structural variations in optical microstructures one can build by using organic crystals, but they also show that deformable light-transducive organic crystals carry an untapped potential for lightweight all-organic optical minicircuitry.
AB - With the rising concerns about global cybersecurity, safe data transduction that would be impervious to cyber attacks necessitates an immediate shift from electron-based to light-based devices. Here, the construction of silicon-free, all-organic photonic integrated circuits by micromanipulation of organic crystals of two mechanically different materials with complementary optical properties, one of which is plastically bendable, is described. The resulting optical circuits are endowed with mechanical reconfiguration at two levels: first, the individual components can be processed into arbitrary shape before integration into the circuit, and second, the circuit itself is reconfigurable even after it is fabricated. The results do not only demonstrate the infinite structural variations in optical microstructures one can build by using organic crystals, but they also show that deformable light-transducive organic crystals carry an untapped potential for lightweight all-organic optical minicircuitry.
KW - crystal
KW - optical circuits
KW - optical transducers
KW - optical waveguide
KW - photonics
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U2 - 10.1002/adfm.202105415
DO - 10.1002/adfm.202105415
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85111777351
SN - 1616-301X
VL - 31
JO - Advanced Functional Materials
JF - Advanced Functional Materials
IS - 43
M1 - 2105415
ER -