Actively addressed single pixel full-colour plasmonic display

Daniel Franklin, Russell Frank, Shin-Tson Wu and Debashis Chanda ()
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Daniel Franklin: University of Central Florida
Russell Frank: NanoScience Technology Center, University of Central Florida
Shin-Tson Wu: CREOL, The College of Optics and Photonics, University of Central Florida
Debashis Chanda: University of Central Florida

Nature Communications, 2017, vol. 8, issue 1, 1-10

Abstract: Abstract Dynamic, colour-changing surfaces have many applications including displays, wearables and active camouflage. Plasmonic nanostructures can fill this role by having the advantages of ultra-small pixels, high reflectivity and post-fabrication tuning through control of the surrounding media. However, previous reports of post-fabrication tuning have yet to cover a full red-green-blue (RGB) colour basis set with a single nanostructure of singular dimensions. Here, we report a method which greatly advances this tuning and demonstrates a liquid crystal-plasmonic system that covers the full RGB colour basis set, only as a function of voltage. This is accomplished through a surface morphology-induced, polarization-dependent plasmonic resonance and a combination of bulk and surface liquid crystal effects that manifest at different voltages. We further demonstrate the system’s compatibility with existing LCD technology by integrating it with a commercially available thin-film-transistor array. The imprinted surface interfaces readily with computers to display images as well as video.

Date: 2017
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