Liquid crystal-powered Mie resonators for electrically tunable photorealistic color gradients and dark blacks

Trevon Badloe; Joohoon Kim; Inki Kim; Won-Sik Kim; Wook Sung Kim; Young-Ki Kim; Junsuk Rho

doi:10.1038/s41377-022-00806-8

Light: Science & Applications (Apr 2022)

Liquid crystal-powered Mie resonators for electrically tunable photorealistic color gradients and dark blacks

Trevon Badloe,
Joohoon Kim,
Inki Kim,
Won-Sik Kim,
Wook Sung Kim,
Young-Ki Kim,
Junsuk Rho

Affiliations

Trevon Badloe: Department of Mechanical Engineering, Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH)
Joohoon Kim: Department of Mechanical Engineering, Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH)
Inki Kim: Department of Mechanical Engineering, Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH)
Won-Sik Kim: Department of Chemical Engineering, Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH)
Wook Sung Kim: Department of Electrical Engineering, Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH)
Young-Ki Kim: Department of Chemical Engineering, Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH)
Junsuk Rho: Department of Mechanical Engineering, Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH)

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41377-022-00806-8
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Ellipsoidal-shaped Mie resonators are integrated with a liquid crystal cell to demonstrate electrically tunable reflective structural color metasurfaces that can be modulated continuously from bright spectral colors to dark blacks.

Published in Light: Science & Applications

ISSN: 2047-7538 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Technology: Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General): Applied optics. Photonics; Science: Physics: Optics. Light
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