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Polarization tunable color filters based on all-dielectric metasurfaces on a flexible substrate

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Wang, Xiqi, Chen, Jingye, Guo, Tingbiao, Shi, Yaocheng·2020·Optics Express
DOI 10.1364/oe.398494
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Structural color filters based on all-dielectric materials are considered to be promising alternatives to metal nanostructures due to significant advantages, such as high-quality resonance effects and low losses of Ohmic effects. We demonstrate a polarization tunable color filter based on all-dielectric metasurfaces, which is based on the arrays of asymmetric monocrystalline silicon nanoblocks on the flexible substrate. By adjusting the physical dimensions of nanoblocks, the filter can exhibit a variety of bright transmission colors. Furthermore, the designed dielectric metasurfaces are sensitive to the linear polarization direction of the incident light, thus a wide range of color images can be created by changing the polarization angles. All of the color filter including the dielectric silicon nanoblocks, the overcladding, and the flexible substrate can be delaminated from the handler substrates and the optical property is reconfigurable, which will find applications in the functional color display, polarization detection and imaging, and secured optical tag.

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  • Good transmission efficiencies have been reported in [20-24], but the colors were subtractive in nature.

    “Although, good transmission efficiencies have been reported in [20–24], the colors were subtractive in nature (CMYK colors are more appropriate for reflected light applications).”

    From Robust inverse design of all-dielectric metasurface transmission-mode color filters (2020) · cites this paper as [22]

    The Introduction (page unavailable) describes bright transmission colors, and the Fabrication and characterization section reports measured transmission colors tunable from purple to red. These passages support the transmission-color aspect, but the paper does not characterize its colors as subtractive or establish a transmission-efficiency figure; the References section names a different study as a subtractive color filter. (LLM, conf=0.78)

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  53. [1](1) Optics Express Siddharth Ramachandran, Editor-in-Chief Journal Home About Issues in Progress Current Issue All Issues Feature Issues Table 1. Different periods of the nanoblocks for three cases. [nm] [nm] [nm] [nm] Case 1 280 150 80 150 Case 2 300 150 80 150 Case 3 320 150 80 150 Confirm Citation Alert Please login to set citation alerts. MathJax Help Equations displayed with MathJax. Right click equation to reveal menu options. Field Error Select as filters Select Topics Cancel Publishing Home Journals Conferences Preprints (Optica Open) Information for Authors Reviewers Librarians Open Access Information Open Access Statement and Policy Terms for Journal Article Reuse Other Resources Optica AI Optica Open Optica Publishing Group Bookshelf Optics ImageBank Optics & Photonics News Spotlight on Optics Optica Home Accessibility Information OPG Accessibility Statement About About Optica Publishing Group About My Account Sign up for Alerts Contact Us Send Us Feedback My Favorites Go to My Account Login to access favorites Recent Pages Polarization tunable color filters based on all-dielectric metasurfaces on a flexible substrate Clear History © Copyright 2026 | Optica Publishing Group. All rights reserved, including rights for text and data mining and training of artificial technologies or similar technologies. Privacy | Terms of Use Login or Create Account Sign in by: Please wait... Don't have an account? Create an Account. Institutional Login (Optica Publishing Group participates in eduGAIN) China CARSI Member Access China CAoS Member Access Privacy Policy Need help? Our website uses cookies In order to remember your preferences (“Functional”), to measure traffic to our site (“Analytics”), and to personalise content and ads and enable social media features (“Marketing & Social Media”), we use cookies and similar technologies. We also share information about your use of our website with our social media, analytics, and advertising partners, who may combine it with other information they have collected from your use of their services. You can change or withdraw your consent at any time. More information about the use of cookies on our website can be found in our privacy policy. Opg.optica.org Functional Cookies and similar technologies that are strictly necessary for the website to work, such as remembering your preferences, security, enabling log-in or processing forms. Consent Studio Consent Studio consent-studio__consent-id ID of the proof of consent storage within the Consent Studio platform.

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Wang, X., Chen, J., Guo, T., & Shi, Y.
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Optics Express
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Optica Publishing Group
Published
2020-07-07
Volume
28
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15
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21704
ISSN
1094-4087 (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.1364/oe.398494
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W3037620182
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  • National Natural Science Foundation of China (61675178, 61922070)
  • Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities
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  • Physical Sciences › Materials Science › Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials › Metamaterials and Metasurfaces Applications
  • Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics › Photonic Crystals and Applications
  • Physical Sciences › Materials Science › Surfaces, Coatings and Films › Optical Coatings and Gratings
Keywords
dielectric metasurfaces, flexible substrates, structural color, linear polarization, polarization detection, delamination, color display

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