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

Abstract

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.

Authors:
 [1];  [2];  [2];  [1];  [1]
  1. Missouri Univ. of Science and Technology, Rolla, MO (United States)
  2. Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
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Research Org.:
Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES); National Science Foundation (NSF); US Department of the Navy, Office of Naval Research (ONR)
OSTI Identifier:
1415568
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC02-06CH11357
Resource 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)
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
36 MATERIALS SCIENCE; Color; Metamaterials; Subwavelength structures; Surface plasmons

Citation Formats

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., 2017. Web. doi:10.1364/OE.25.020454.
Wang, Wei, Rosenmann, Daniel, Czaplewski, David A., Yang, Xiaodong, & Gao, Jie. Realizing structural color generation with aluminum plasmonic V-groove metasurfaces. United States. https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.25.020454
Wang, Wei, Rosenmann, Daniel, Czaplewski, David A., Yang, Xiaodong, and Gao, Jie. Mon . "Realizing structural color generation with aluminum plasmonic V-groove metasurfaces". United States. https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.25.020454. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1415568.
@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 = {Mon Aug 14 00:00:00 EDT 2017},
month = {Mon Aug 14 00:00:00 EDT 2017}
}

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