Biomimetic plasmonic color generated by the single-layer coaxial honeycomb nanostructure arrays

Jiancun Zhao; Bo Gao; Haoyong Li; Xiaochang Yu; Xiaoming Yang; Yiting Yu

doi:10.1117/1.JNP.11.036020

15 September 2017 Biomimetic plasmonic color generated by the single-layer coaxial honeycomb nanostructure arrays

Jiancun Zhao, Bo Gao, Haoyong Li, Xiaochang Yu, Xiaoming Yang, Yiting Yu

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Funded by: Natural Science Foundation of China, Specific Project for the National Excellent Doctorial Dissertations, The 111 Project, Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities

Journal of Nanophotonics, Vol. 11, Issue 3, 036020 (September 2017). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JNP.11.036020

Abstract

We proposed a periodic coaxial honeycomb nanostructure array patterned in a silver film to realize the plasmonic structural color, which was inspired from natural honeybee hives. The spectral characteristics of the structure with variant geometrical parameters are investigated by employing a finite-difference time-domain method, and the corresponding colors are thus derived by calculating XYZ tristimulus values corresponding with the transmission spectra. The study demonstrates that the suggested structure with only a single layer has high transmission, narrow full-width at half-maximum, and wide color tunability by changing geometrical parameters. Therefore, the plasmonic colors realized possess a high color brightness, saturation, as well as a wide color gamut. In addition, the strong polarization independence makes it more attractive for practical applications. These results indicate that the recommended color-generating plasmonic structure has various potential applications in highly integrated optoelectronic devices, such as color filters and high-definition displays.

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Jiancun Zhao, Bo Gao, Haoyong Li, Xiaochang Yu, Xiaoming Yang, and Yiting Yu "Biomimetic plasmonic color generated by the single-layer coaxial honeycomb nanostructure arrays," Journal of Nanophotonics 11(3), 036020 (15 September 2017). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JNP.11.036020

Received: 14 June 2017; Accepted: 29 August 2017; Published: 15 September 2017

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