Arbitrary hue-brightness structural colors with high saturation generated by anisotropic metasurfaces

Chong Wang; He Li; Longjie Li; Xiao Shang; Shengqiong Chen; Huiwen Xue; Peiwen Zhang; Jiebin Niu; Yongliang Zhang; Lina Shi

doi:10.1364/PRJ.545854

Photonics Research, Volume. 13, Issue 3, 772(2025)

Arbitrary hue-brightness structural colors with high saturation generated by anisotropic metasurfaces

Chong Wang^1、†, He Li^1,2、†, Longjie Li³, Xiao Shang¹, Shengqiong Chen¹, Huiwen Xue¹, Peiwen Zhang¹, Jiebin Niu¹, Yongliang Zhang^4,5, and Lina Shi^1、*

Author Affiliations

¹State Key Laboratory of Fabrication Technologies for Integrated Circuits, Institute of Microelectronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100029, China

²University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China

³Department of Electronic and Optical Engineering, Space Engineering University, Beijing 101416, China

⁴State Key Laboratory of Semiconductor Physics and Chip Technologies, Institute of Semiconductors, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100083, China

⁵e-mail: ylzhanglight@semi.ac.cn

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Category: Nanophotonics and Photonic Crystals

Received: Oct. 29, 2024

Accepted: Jan. 12, 2025

Published Online: Mar. 3, 2025

The Author Email: Lina Shi (shilina@ime.ac.cn)

DOI:10.1364/PRJ.545854

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