Soft‐Matter‐Based Hybrid and Active Metamaterials

R Kowerdziej, A Ferraro… - Advanced Optical …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Metamaterials are artificial electromagnetic media structured on the subwavelength scale for
controlling the propagation of waves by means of transformation optics. The research activity …

Electrically switchable, polarization-sensitive encryption based on aluminum nanoaperture arrays integrated with polymer-dispersed liquid crystals

K Li, J Wang, W Cai, H He, M Cen, J Liu, D Luo… - Nano Letters, 2021 - ACS Publications
Metasurface-based structural coloration is a promising enabling technology for advanced
optical encryption with a high-security level. Herein, we propose a paradigm of electrically …

Angular multiplexing nanoprinting with independent amplitude encryption based on visible-frequency metasurfaces

J Tang, Z Li, S Wan, Z Wang, C Wan… - ACS Applied Materials …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Two-dimensional (2D) metasurfaces hold great promise to enable multiplexing and
multifunctional optical devices due to their artificial freedom in design, device …

Recent progress on structural coloration

Y Li, J Hu, Y Zeng, Q Song, CW Qiu… - Photonics Insights, 2024 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Structural coloration generates colors by the interaction between incident light and micro-or
nano-scale structures. It has received tremendous interest for decades, due to advantages …

Polarization‐Controlled Chromo‐Encryption

HC Wang, OJF Martin - Advanced Optical Materials, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The response of simple plasmonic nanorods to polarized illumination is studied in detail.
Depending on the orientation of that polarization with respect to the symmetry axes of the …

The accurate imaging of collective gold nanorods with a polarization-dependent dark-field light scattering microscope

JJ Liu, S Wen, HH Yan, R Cheng, F Zhu… - Analytical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Anisotropic nanomaterials, such as gold nanorods (AuNRs), could be employed as an
orientation platform due to their polarization-dependent surface plasmon resonance …

Deep Subwavelength Wide‐Angle Structural Colors at the Single Pixel Level

L Shi, J Niu, L Li, C Wang, X Shang… - Advanced Optical …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Structural colorations with artificially engineered nanostructures provide a dye‐free
mechanism for subdiffraction color generation with enhanced stability and environment …

Ultrasensitive Molecular Detection at Subpicomolar Concentrations by the Diffraction Pattern Imaging with Plasmonic Metasurfaces and Convex Holographic Gratings

M Wu, G Li, X Ye, B Zhou, J Zhou, J Cai - Advanced Science, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Compact and cost‐effective optical devices for highly sensitive detection of trace molecules
are significant in many applications, including healthcare, pollutant monitoring and …

Designing vibrant and bright transmission colors with multilayer film structures

X Xie, JJ Hao, HW Yang - Physica B: Condensed Matter, 2024 - Elsevier
In this work, we present a multilayer film structure that utilizes optical resonance for
preparing extremely efficient and highly saturated red, green, and blue transmittance colors …

Electrically switchable multicolored filter using plasmonic nanograting integrated with liquid crystal for optical storage and encryption

S Zhang, Q Wang, B Xu, R Hong, D Zhang… - Optics …, 2023 - opg.optica.org
This study proposed the synergistic merging of twisted-nematic liquid crystals (LCs) and
nanograting embedded etalon structures for plasmonic structure color generation, realizing …