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Tuneable photonic device including an array of metamaterial resonators

US9594266B1 · kind B1 · utility

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Assignee

Sandia Corporation · US

Inventors

Igal Brener · Albuquerque, US
Michael C. Wanke · Albuquerque, US
Alexander Benz · Wien, AT

Key dates

Filing date	Feb 18, 2014
Grant date	Mar 14, 2017
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Mar 18, 2035

Classification

Technology area (CPC B)Performing Operations; Transporting
CPC primaryB82Y30/00
WIPO fieldOptics
WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

A photonic apparatus includes a metamaterial resonator array overlying and electromagnetically coupled to a vertically stacked plurality of quantum wells defined in a semiconductor body. An arrangement of electrical contact layers is provided for facilitating the application of a bias voltage across the quantum well stack. Those portions of the semiconductor body that lie between the electrical contact layers are conformed to provide an electrically conductive path between the contact layers and through the quantum well stack.

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