Abstract. A 20-MHz switching high-speed light-modulating device for three-dimensional (3-D) image capturing and its system prototype are presented. For 3-D image capturing, the system utilizes a time-of-flight (TOF) principle by means of a 20-MHz high-speed micromachined electroabsorptive modulator, the so-called optical shutter. The high-speed modulation is obtained by utilizing the electro-absorption mechanism of the multilayer structure, which has an optical resonance cavity and lightabsorption epilayers grown by metal organic chemical vapor deposition process. The optical shutter device is specially designed to have small resistor-capacitor-time constant to get the high-speed modulation. The optical shutter is positioned in front of a standard high-resolution complementary metal oxide semiconductor image sensor. The optical shutter modulates the incoming infrared image to acquire the depth image. The suggested novel optical shutter device enables capturing of a full high resolution-depth image, which has been limited to video graphics array (VGA) by previous depth-capturing technologies. The suggested 3-D image sensing device can have a crucial impact on 3-D-related business such as 3-D cameras, gesture recognition, user interfaces, and 3-D displays. This paper presents micro-opto-electro-mechanical systemsbased optical shutter design, fabrication, characterization, 3-D camera system prototype, and image evaluation. © The Authors. Published by SPIE under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. Distribution or reproduction of this work in whole or in part requires full attribution of the original publication, including its DOI.

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The feasibility of the charge-transfer based polymer resistive memory as a future data storage device was tested using a thermally robust polyimide and PCBM composite film, available by low-cost solution processing. The prototype device with a simple 4F 2 cross-point cell structure demonstrated basic non-volatile memory functions (> 1000 write/erase cycles and 1-week data retention in an ambient without encapsulation). Not only bi-polar but also uni-polar operation scheme with multi-level programming worked for the device. The cells on both the top and the bottom layers of a stacked device with additional heat budget of > 300 o C for 1 hour exhibited no degradation on the performance.