Acta Optica Sinica, Volume. 44, Issue 9, 0931001(2024)

Hydrogel-Based Metal-Insulator-Metal Structures with Dynamically Tunable Colors

Haibin Ni*, Yi Shen, Junping Zhou, Xuzhi Gao, Bo Ni, and Jianhua Chang
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  • School of Electronics & Information Engineering, Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology, Nanjing 210044, Jiangsu, China
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    Haibin Ni, Yi Shen, Junping Zhou, Xuzhi Gao, Bo Ni, Jianhua Chang. Hydrogel-Based Metal-Insulator-Metal Structures with Dynamically Tunable Colors[J]. Acta Optica Sinica, 2024, 44(9): 0931001

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    Paper Information

    Category: Thin Films

    Received: Jan. 2, 2024

    Accepted: Feb. 23, 2024

    Published Online: May. 15, 2024

    The Author Email: Haibin Ni (nihaibin@nuist.edu.cn)

    DOI:10.3788/AOS232019

    CSTR:32393.14.AOS232019

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