• Advanced Photonics Nexus
  • Vol. 1, Issue 2, 026002 (2022)
Yu Chen1、†, Yang Li1, Wenhao Tang1, Yutao Tang1, Yue Hu1, Zixian Hu1, Junhong Deng2, Kokwai Cheah3, and Guixin Li1、*
Author Affiliations
  • 1Southern University of Science and Technology, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Shenzhen, China
  • 2Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen Institute for Quantum Science and Engineering, Shenzhen, China
  • 3Hong Kong Baptist University, Department of Physics and Institute of Advanced Materials, Hong Kong, China
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    DOI: 10.1117/1.APN.1.2.026002 Cite this Article Set citation alerts
    Yu Chen, Yang Li, Wenhao Tang, Yutao Tang, Yue Hu, Zixian Hu, Junhong Deng, Kokwai Cheah, Guixin Li. Centimeter scale color printing with grayscale lithography[J]. Advanced Photonics Nexus, 2022, 1(2): 026002 Copy Citation Text show less

    Abstract

    Structural color from artificial structures, due to its environmental friendliness and excellent durability, represents a route for color printing applications. Among various physical mechanisms, the Fabry–Perot (F–P) cavity effect provides a powerful way to generate vivid colors in either the reflection or transmission direction. Most of the previous F–P type color printing works rely on electron beam grayscale lithography, however, with this technique it is challenging to make large-area and low-cost devices. To circumvent this constraint, we propose to fabricate the F–P type color printing device by the laser grayscale lithography process. The F–P cavity consists of two thin silver films as mirrors and a photoresist film with a spatially variant thickness as the spacer layer. By controlling the laser exposure dose pixel by pixel, a centimeter-scale full-color printing device with a spatial resolution up to 5 μm × 5 μm is demonstrated. The proposed large area color printing device may have great potential in practical application areas such as color displays, hyperspectral imaging, advanced painting, and so on.
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    Yu Chen, Yang Li, Wenhao Tang, Yutao Tang, Yue Hu, Zixian Hu, Junhong Deng, Kokwai Cheah, Guixin Li. Centimeter scale color printing with grayscale lithography[J]. Advanced Photonics Nexus, 2022, 1(2): 026002
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