Ultrathin Nanostructured Metals for Highly Transmissive Plasmonic Subtractive Color Filters
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Plasmonic color filters employing a single optically-thick nanostructured metal layer have recently generated considerable interest as an alternative to colorant-based color filtering technologies, due to their reliability, ease of fabrication, and high color tunability. However, their relatively low transmission efficiency (~30%) needs to be significantly improved for practical applications. The present work reports, for the first time, a novel plasmonic subtractive color filtering scheme that exploits the counter-intuitive phenomenon of extraordinary low transmission (ELT) through an ultrathin nanostructured metal film. This approach relies on a fundamentally different color filtering mechanism than that of existing plasmonic additive color filters, and achieves unusually high transmission efficiencies of 60 ~ 70% for simple architectures. Furthermore, owing to short-range interactions of surface plasmon polaritons at ELT resonances, our design offers high spatial resolution color filtering with compact pixel size close to the optical diffraction limit (~λ/2), creating solid applications ranging from imaging sensors to color displays.
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Initial investigations into metasurface spectral filters used plasmonic metals, but there has been a gradual shift towards all-dielectric metasurfaces owing to their comparatively lesser optical absorption.
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- Authors
- Zeng, B., Gao, Y., & Bartoli, F. J.
- Affiliations
- Lehigh University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Zeng, Beibei
- Bartoli, Filbert J.
- ORCID
- Gao, Yongkang
- Venue
- Scientific Reports
- Published
- 2013-10-08
- Volume
- 3
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 2840-2840
- ISSN
- 2045-2322 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC3792416
- OpenAlex
- W2950226880
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- 18.41
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- journal article
- Language
- en
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- Scientific Reports (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- National Science Foundation (1014957, 0901324)
- Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems (1014957)
- Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Biomedical Engineering › Plasmonic and Surface Plasmon Research
- Physical Sciences › Materials Science › Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials › Gold and Silver Nanoparticles Synthesis and Applications
- Physical Sciences › Materials Science › Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials › Metamaterials and Metasurfaces Applications
- Keywords
- plasmonic color filters, ultrathin metal films, nanostructured metals, surface plasmon polaritons, transmission efficiency, color display, image sensors
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