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SCIENCE ADVANCES
Volume 8, Issue 8, Pages -Publisher
AMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abm4512
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- A*STAR career development award [202D8088]
- A*STAR AME IRG grant [A20E5c0093]
- Advanced Research and Technology Innovation Centre [R-261-518-004-720]
- National Research Funding (NRF) Singapore [NRF-CRP20-2017-0001, NRF-CRP22-2019-0006]
- NRF Singapore [NRF-NRFI06-2020-0005]
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A study has found that the design of nanoantennas can achieve saturated and bright red colors with high reflectance, surpassing traditional red pigments. This design also has potential applications in information encryption.
While structural colors are ubiquitous in nature, saturated reds are mysteriously absent. This long-standing problem of achieving Schrodinger's red demands sharp transitions from stopband to a high-reflectance passband with total suppression of higher-order resonances at blue/green wavelengths. Current approaches based on nanoantennas are insufficient to satisfy all conditions simultaneously. Here, we designed Si nanoantennas to support two partially overlapping quasi-bound-states-in-the-continuum modes with a gradient descent algorithm to achieve sharp spectral edges at red wavelengths. Meanwhile, high-order modes at blue/green wavelengths are suppressed via engineering the substrate-induced diffraction channels and the absorption of amorphous Si. This design produces possibly the most saturated and brightest reds with similar to 80% reflectance, exceeding the red vertex in sRGB and even the cadmium red pigment. Its nature of being sensitive to polarization and illumination angle could be potentially used for information encryption, and this proposed paradigm could be generalized to other Schrodinger's color pixels.
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