Abstract
Structural reflective colors based on Fabry-Perot (F-P) cavity resonances have attracted tremendous interest for diverse applications, such as color decoration and printing, display, and imaging devices. However, the asymmetric F-P cavity-based reflective colors proposed to date have low color purity and have difficulty to realize a desired vivid color because of a narrow absorption band characteristic in the visible light region. Here, a solution-processed, F-P ultra-broadband light absorber is newly proposed using a high lossy nanoporous material for vivid color generation. An asymmetric metal-insulator-metal structure consists of a high lossy nanoporous metallic film with coupled silver nanocrystals (Ag NCs) as the top layer. The absorbers not only increase the maximum absorption intensity up to ∼98% but also widen the bandwidth by 300 nm, resulting in high color purity in micrometer-scale pixels. Furthermore, the solution-based absorber shows potential to realize a high-resolution display pixel and anticounterfeiting devices having mechanical flexibility using the inkjet printing technology.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 7280-7287 |
Number of pages | 8 |
Journal | ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces |
Volume | 11 |
Issue number | 7 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2019 Feb 20 |
Keywords
- Fabry-Perot
- broadband absorber
- nanocrystal
- optical loss
- reflective color
- silver nanocrystal
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Materials Science(all)