Polarization-independent actively tunable colour generation on imprinted plasmonic surfaces

Nature Communications

Volumn 6, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Franklin, Daniel ^a   Chen, Yuan ^a   Vazquez Guardado, Abraham ^a   Modak, Sushrut ^a   Boroumand, Javaneh ^a   Xu, Daming ^a   Wu, Shin Tson ^a   Chanda, Debashis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NANOMATERIAL;

COLOR; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PIGMENT; PIXEL; PLASMA; VISIBLE SPECTRUM;

ARTICLE; BIREFRINGENCE; COLOR; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; LIQUID CRYSTAL; POLARIZATION; SPECTRUM; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; SURFACE PROPERTY;

EID: 84931281928     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms8337     Document Type: Article

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