Full Color Generation Using Silver Tandem Nanodisks.
Plasmonic effects associated with metallic nanostructures have been widely studied for color generation. It became apparent that highly saturated and bright colors are hard to obtain, and very small nanostructures need to be fabricated. To address this issue, in this study, we employ metal-insulator-metal sandwich nanodisks that support enhanced in-phase electric dipole modes, which are blue-shifted with respect to a single metal disk. The blue shift enables the generation of short wavelength colors with larger nanostructures. The radiation modes hybridize with the Wood's anomaly in periodic structures, creating narrow and high-resonance peaks in the reflection and deep valleys in the transmission spectra, thus producing vivid complementary colors in both cases. Full colors can be achieved by tuning the radius of the nanodisks and the periodicity of the arrays. Good agreement between simulations and experiments is demonstrated and analyzed in CIE1931, sRGB, and HSV color spaces. The presented method has potential for applications in imaging, data storage, ultrafine displays, and plasmon-based biosensors.
Nanophotonics and Metrology Laboratory (NAM), Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL) , 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland.
Hao
0000-0001-5388-6691
H
Wang
Nanophotonics and Metrology Laboratory (NAM), Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL) , 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland.
Xiaolong
X
Wang
Nanophotonics and Metrology Laboratory (NAM), Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL) , 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland.
Chen
0000-0002-3171-0449
C
Yan
Hua
H
Zhao
Jingwen
J
Zhang
Nanophotonics and Metrology Laboratory (NAM), Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL) , 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland.
Christian
C
Santschi
Nanophotonics and Metrology Laboratory (NAM), Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL) , 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland.
Olivier J F
0000-0002-9574-3119
OJF
Martin
D015374:Biosensing Techniques / Q000379:methods; D003116:Color; D004560:Electricity; D049329:Nanostructures / Q000737:chemistry; D036103:Nanotechnology / Q000379:methods*; D012834:Silver / Q000737:chemistry*; D020349:Surface Plasmon Resonance / Q000379:methods*
D012834:Silver
color; localized surface plasmon resonance; metal−insulator−metal nanodisks; metasurface; reflection and transmission; tandem nanodisks