Structural color printing via polymer-assisted photochemical deposition (IMAGE)

Light Publishing Center, Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics And Physics, CAS

Structural color printing via polymer-assisted photochemical deposition

Caption

a, Schematic illustration of the polymer-assisted photochemical deposition (PPD) printing setup and an example of printed ASU logo (scale bar: 500 μm). b, Three-dimensional scheme showing printing of multi-layered film stack into microstructures. c, Optical images showing an example of printed colored ASU logo corresponding to b. Scale bar: 100 μm. (d-h) Demonstration of the feasibility of printing complex structures with various colors. d, A cartoon character ‘Stitch’, e, a symbol of Arizona ‘Cactus’, and f, a logo of ‘ASU’. Scale bar: 100 μm. g, Camera image of fabricated FP cavity on PET substrate with gentle bending. h, Optical images of produced colored DEETHU logo on a dielectric-coated metallic layer. Scale bar: 100 μm.

Credit

by Shinhyuk Choi, Zhi Zhao, Jiawei Zuo, Hossain Mansur Resalat Faruque, Yu Yao and Chao Wang

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