Printing colour at the optical diffraction limit

Nature Nanotechnology

Volumn 7, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 557-561

  Kumar, Karthik ^a   Duan, Huigao ^a   Hegde, Ravi S ^b   Koh, Samuel C W ^a   Wei, Jennifer N ^a   Yang, Joel K W ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS RESEARCH AND ENGINEERING   (Singapore)

^b INSTITUTE OF HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLOR; COLOR PRINTING; DIGITAL STORAGE; NANOIMPRINT LITHOGRAPHY; OPTICAL DATA STORAGE; PIXELS; PLASMONICS; PLASMONS;

COLOUR INFORMATIONS; DIFFRACTION LIMITS; DIMENSIONAL PARAMETERS; DOTS PER INCHES; METAL NANOSTRUCTURE; OPTICAL DIFFRACTION LIMIT; PLASMON RESONANCES; STRUCTURAL COLOUR;

DIFFRACTION;

METAL; NANOMATERIAL;

ARTICLE; COLOR; DIFFRACTION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LITHOGRAPHY; NANOFABRICATION; OPTICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; STEGANOGRAPHY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 84866099816     PISSN: 17483387     EISSN: 17483395     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nnano.2012.128     Document Type: Article

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