PHEMTRONICS has the ambitious vision of translating forefront knowledge in phase-transformation dynamics of “light controllable active matter with reconfigurable and interactively tunable dynamical properties” into broadband reconfigurable and adaptive devices by developing a radically novel transdimensional materials platform that is intrinsically phase change, low-loss plasmonic and electronically topological.

PHEMTRONICS will move from the “one antenna-one mission” to the “one antenna-multiservice and multiband operation”, shifting from current paradigms based on electronic switching to “all-optical switching”,  and shifting paradigm from electrical or thermal phase change to “Optical-Phase-Change” enabling broadband reconfigurability from telecom to visible frequencies .

​PHEMTRONICS will enable a new technology paradigm of adaptive optical signal processing with ultrafast network reconfiguration with key metrics of the “femtosecond-scale switching time”, “ultralow power of femtojoule/bit” and “microwave-to-optical frequencies” broadband capability required for reliable multibit operations.


The exciting outcomes include demonstrations of

• Ultrafast and low-power switches
• Adaptive antennas
• Adaptive switchable multiple-band detection which is the future generation of photodetectors
• All-optical spiking neuron circuit, with integrated all-optical synapses.​

PHEMTRONICS was launched in June 2020 as a 3-year collaborative project on CMOS-compatible phase-change materials, plasmonic, photonic and electronic integration that brings together 8 leading academic and research institutes and companies.

PHEMTRONICS has received funding from the European Union’s  Horizon 2020 reserach and innovation programme under grant agreement No 899598.