Scalable, full-colour and controllable chromotropic plasmonic printing

Jiancai Xue, Zhang-Kai Zhou (), Zhiqiang Wei, Rongbin Su, Juan Lai, Juntao Li, Chao Li, Tengwei Zhang and Xue-Hua Wang ()
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Jiancai Xue: State Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Materials and Technologies, Sun Yat-sen University
Zhang-Kai Zhou: State Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Materials and Technologies, Sun Yat-sen University
Zhiqiang Wei: State Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Materials and Technologies, Sun Yat-sen University
Rongbin Su: State Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Materials and Technologies, Sun Yat-sen University
Juan Lai: State Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Materials and Technologies, Sun Yat-sen University
Juntao Li: State Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Materials and Technologies, Sun Yat-sen University
Chao Li: State Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Materials and Technologies, Sun Yat-sen University
Tengwei Zhang: State Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Materials and Technologies, Sun Yat-sen University
Xue-Hua Wang: State Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Materials and Technologies, Sun Yat-sen University

Nature Communications, 2015, vol. 6, issue 1, 1-9

Abstract: Abstract Plasmonic colour printing has drawn wide attention as a promising candidate for the next-generation colour-printing technology. However, an efficient approach to realize full colour and scalable fabrication is still lacking, which prevents plasmonic colour printing from practical applications. Here we present a scalable and full-colour plasmonic printing approach by combining conjugate twin-phase modulation with a plasmonic broadband absorber. More importantly, our approach also demonstrates controllable chromotropic capability, that is, the ability of reversible colour transformations. This chromotropic capability affords enormous potentials in building functionalized prints for anticounterfeiting, special label, and high-density data encryption storage. With such excellent performances in functional colour applications, this colour-printing approach could pave the way for plasmonic colour printing in real-world commercial utilization.

Date: 2015
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