Structural color printing based on plasmonic metasurfaces of perfect light absorption

Scientific Reports

Volumn 5, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Cheng, Fei ^a   Gao, Jie ^a   Luk, S Ting ^b   Yang, Xiaodong ^a  

^a University of Missouri Rolla   (United States)

^b SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

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EID: 84930960513     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep11045     Document Type: Article

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