Transmissive/Reflective structural color filters: Theory and applications

Journal of Nanomaterials

Volumn 2014, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Yu, Yan ^a,b   Wen, Long ^b   Song, Shichao ^b   Chen, Qin ^b,c  

^a SHANGHAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SUZHOU INSTITUTE OF NANO TECH AND NANO BIONICS   (China)

^c PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; COLOR IMAGE PROCESSING; STRUCTURE (COMPOSITION); SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

CAVITY RESONANCES; CMOS IMAGE SENSOR; COLOR SELECTION; INTEGRATION APPLICATION; LIGHT DIFFRACTION; MULTI-FUNCTIONS; RESEARCH INTERESTS; STRUCTURAL COLOR;

COLOR;

EID: 84930244262     PISSN: 16874110     EISSN: 16874129     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2014/212637     Document Type: Review

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