Title :
Angularly independent structural color of nanostructured metal surfaces
Author :
Lee, S.Y. ; Dal Negro, Luca
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Boston Univ., Boston, MA, USA
Abstract :
We design and demonstrate angularly insensitive structural color from nanostructured metal surfaces. Plasmon-enhanced light scattering of aperiodic pinwheel gold nanoparticles on gold thin film is observed in green by dark-field scattering and variable-angle reflection spectroscopies.
Keywords :
colour; gold; light scattering; nanoparticles; nanophotonics; optical design techniques; optical films; plasmons; reflectivity; thin films; visible spectra; Au; angularly independent structural color; aperiodic pinwheel gold nanoparticles; dark-field scattering; gold thin film; nanostructured metal surfaces; plasmon-enhanced light scattering; variable-angle reflection spectroscopies; Color; Gold; Nanostructures; Optical surface waves; Scattering; Spectroscopy; angularly independent strucutral color; deterministic aperiodic nanostructures;
Conference_Titel :
Optical MEMS and Nanophotonics (OMN), 2011 International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Istanbul
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-0334-8
DOI :
10.1109/OMEMS.2011.6031078
