Realizing structural color generation with aluminum plasmonic V-groove metasurfaces

doi:10.1364/OE.25.020454

Title: Realizing structural color generation with aluminum plasmonic V-groove metasurfaces

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The structural color printing based on all-aluminum plasmonic V-groove metasurfaces is demonstrated under both bright field and dark field illumination conditions. A broad visible color range is realized with the plasmonic V-groove arrays etched on aluminum surface by simply varying the groove depth while keeping the groove period as a constant. Polarization dependent structural color printing is further achieved with interlaced V-groove arrays along both the horizontal and vertical directions. Furthermore, these results pave the way towards the use of all-aluminum structural color printing platform for many practical applications such as security marking and information storage.

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Wang, Wei ^[1] ; Rosenmann, Daniel ^[2] ; Czaplewski, David A. ^[2] ; Yang, Xiaodong ^[1] ; Gao, Jie ^[1]

Missouri Univ. of Science and Technology, Rolla, MO (United States)
Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)

Publication Date:: 2017-08-14

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-06CH11357

Type:: Accepted Manuscript

Journal Name:: Optics Express

Additional Journal Information:: Journal Volume: 25; Journal Issue: 17; Journal ID: ISSN 1094-4087

Publisher:: Optical Society of America (OSA)

Research Org:: Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)

Sponsoring Org:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES) (SC-22); National Science Foundation (NSF); US Department of the Navy, Office of Naval Research (ONR)

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Subject:: 36 MATERIALS SCIENCE; Color; Metamaterials; Subwavelength structures; Surface plasmons

OSTI Identifier:: 1415568


                    Wang, Wei, Rosenmann, Daniel, Czaplewski, David A., Yang, Xiaodong, and Gao, Jie. Realizing structural color generation with aluminum plasmonic V-groove metasurfaces.  United States: N. p.,  
        Web.  doi:10.1364/OE.25.020454.

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                    Wang, Wei, Rosenmann, Daniel, Czaplewski, David A., Yang, Xiaodong, & Gao, Jie. Realizing structural color generation with aluminum plasmonic V-groove metasurfaces.  United States.  doi:10.1364/OE.25.020454.

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                    Wang, Wei, Rosenmann, Daniel, Czaplewski, David A., Yang, Xiaodong, and Gao, Jie. 2017.  
        "Realizing structural color generation with aluminum plasmonic V-groove metasurfaces".  United States.  
        doi:10.1364/OE.25.020454.  https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1415568.

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@article{osti_1415568,

  title        = {Realizing structural color generation with aluminum plasmonic V-groove metasurfaces},

  author       = {Wang, Wei and Rosenmann, Daniel and Czaplewski, David A. and Yang, Xiaodong and Gao, Jie},

  abstractNote = {The structural color printing based on all-aluminum plasmonic V-groove metasurfaces is demonstrated under both bright field and dark field illumination conditions. A broad visible color range is realized with the plasmonic V-groove arrays etched on aluminum surface by simply varying the groove depth while keeping the groove period as a constant. Polarization dependent structural color printing is further achieved with interlaced V-groove arrays along both the horizontal and vertical directions. Furthermore, these results pave the way towards the use of all-aluminum structural color printing platform for many practical applications such as security marking and information storage.},

  doi          = {10.1364/OE.25.020454},

  journal      = {Optics Express},

  number       = 17,

  volume       = 25,

  place        = {United States},

  year         = {2017},

  month        = {8}

}

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