Chinese Optics Letters, Volume. 21, Issue 3, 033602(2023)
High color saturation and angle-insensitive ultrathin color filter based on effective medium theory
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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)