Actively tunable optical materials integrated with engineered subwavelength structures could enable a new generation of optoelectronic devices with low power consumption for on-chip hyperspectral focal plane arrays or optical beam steering. Phase-change materials, such as vanadium dioxide (VO2), are a promising solid-state solution for dynamic tuning; however, previous demonstrations have focused on VO2 films with >50 nm thickness, limiting their use in e.g. optical memory devices. Here we integrate nanometer-thick VO2 films with plasmonic metasurfaces to demonstrate tunable near-perfect absorption in the near-IR ranging from 900 nm to >1500 nm. Upon heating to induce the phase transition, the absorption resonance can be blue-shifted by up to 40 nm, a process that can be completely reversed by cooling and repeated over multiple cycles. Finite-element simulations follow the experimental spectral dependence and demonstrate that ~160 nm of tuning may be possible with further optimization.
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