Large-Area Structural Color Filtering Capitalizing on Nanoporous Metal-Dielectric-Metal Configuration

Nanoscale Research Letters
Yang LiZhi-Ming Li

Abstract

We present a highly efficient structural color filtering approach for large-area application, using a nanoporous anodic alumina (NAA) film overlaid with an aluminum (Al) layer on top of an optically thick Al substrate. The NAA film, consisting of a self-assembled nanopore array in a hexagonal lattice, is equivalent to a quasi-homogeneous medium according to effective medium theory. The proposed structure enables strong absorption at resonance owing to the Fabry-Perot resonance supported by the metal-dielectric-metal configuration and the plasmonic effect mediated by the top nanoporous Al layer. The reflection colors can be readily tuned by altering the NAA thickness that is determined by anodization time, thereby allowing the flexible creation of complicated color images on a single platform. By fabricating three samples with different NAA thicknesses in a large area of 2 cm × 2 cm, it is confirmed that the proposed color filtering scheme exhibits highly enhanced color purity and high reflection efficiency of up to 73%, which is superior to that generated by previously reported NAA-based approaches. The presented strategy can pave the way for the efficient fabrication of large-area color filtering devices for various potential ...Continue Reading

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