Chinese Optics Letters, Volume. 21, Issue 3, 033602(2023)
High color saturation and angle-insensitive ultrathin color filter based on effective medium theory
Fig. 1. (a) Schematic diagram of the color filter based on a lossy dielectric-metal structure; (b) reflectance spectra and chromaticity coordinates with increasing n2 for a fixed k2 of 0.6; (c) reflectance spectra and chromaticity coordinates with increasing k2 for a fixed n2 of 4; (d) color palettes with varying n2 and k2.
Fig. 2. (a) Complex refractive index of a-Si:H and MgH2 and reflectance spectra of CMY filters based on the a-Si:H-Al structure; (b) equivalent conversion relationship between hybrid lossy and quasi-homogeneous dielectric layer based on EMT; (c) calculated effective complex refractive indices of the MgH2-a-Si:H layer with different thicknesses of MgH2.
Fig. 3. (a) Reflectance spectra and chromaticity coordinates of yellow and cyan filters without and with the MgH2 layer in different stacking cases; (b) color gamut of the structure based on a single a-Si:H layer and the proposed structure.
Fig. 4. (a) Reflectance spectra of CMY filters under s-, p-polarized, and unpolarized light illumination when the incident angle increases; (b) schematic diagram of the phases involved in two cases based on different combination orders of MgH2 and a-Si:H lossy dielectric layers; (c) propagation and reflection phases of the CMY filters as a function of the incident angle under s- and p-polarized light illumination.
Fig. 5. (a) Schematic diagram of the proposed color filter with regard to the dynamic interconversion in the top layer between MgH2 and Mg; reflectance spectra and corresponding chromaticity coordinates of (b) the cyan filter and (c) the magenta filter when the top layer of MgH2 is converted to Mg.
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Xinting Li, Yang Li, Chao Li, Song Gao, Wenjing Yue, "High color saturation and angle-insensitive ultrathin color filter based on effective medium theory," Chin. Opt. Lett. 21, 033602 (2023)
Category: Nanophotonics, Metamaterials, and Plasmonics
Received: Jun. 28, 2022
Accepted: Nov. 7, 2022
Published Online: Dec. 2, 2022
The Author Email: Song Gao (ise_gaos@ujn.edu.cn), Wenjing Yue (ise_yuewj@ujn.edu.cn)