Design of Reflective Tunable Structural Color Metasurface Based on Guided-Mode Resonance Filter and Sb2S3

In recent years, dynamically tunable structural color has attracted great interest. Here, we introduce the guided-mode resonance (GMR) filter and the phase-change material Sb2S3 to design a reflective optical metasurface to produce tunable structural color, in which the combination of the GMR filter, with narrow resonant wavelength, and the Sb2S3, with a much larger bandgap and higher refractive index, helps to produce high-quality tunable structural color. The simulation results indicate that through the phase transition between the amorphous and crystalline states of Sb2S3, the proposed metasurface can generate tunable structural color that can be perceived by the naked eye. Furthermore, the metasurface can sensitively sense environmental changes through changes in structural color. This work provides a new method for realizing dynamically tunable structural color, and paves the way for the application of controllable structural color in dynamic displays, optical stealth, colorimetric sensing, and other fields.

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In this study, a reflective optical metasurface composed of a guided-mode resonance (GMR) filter and a phase-change material Sb2S3 is introduced to achieve tunable structural color. The combination of the GMR filter with narrow resonant wavelength and the Sb2S3 with larger bandgap and higher refractive index enables the production of high-quality tunable structural color. Simulation results demonstrate that the proposed metasurface can generate tunable structural color perceivable by the naked eye through the phase transition of Sb2S3 between amorphous and crystalline states. Furthermore, the metasurface can sensitively sense environmental changes through variations in structural color.