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Ultrafast Light-Controlled Growth of Silver Nanoparticles for Direct Plasmonic Color Printing.

Yangxi ZhangQiang ZhangXia OuyangDang Yuan LeiA Ping ZhangHwa-Yaw Tam
Published in: ACS nano (2018)
A precision photoreduction technology for the ultrafast high-precision light-controlled growth of silver nanoparticles for printing plasmonic color images is presented. Ultraviolet (UV) patterns with about a million pixels are generated to temporally and spatially regulate the photoreduction of silver salts to precisely create around a million clusters of distinct silver nanoparticles on a titanium dioxide (TiO2)-capped quartz substrate. The silver nanoparticle-TiO2-quartz structure exhibits a Fano-like reflection spectrum, whose spectral dip can be tuned by the dimension of the silver nanoparticles for plasmonic color generation. This technology allows the one-step production of multiscale engineered large-area plasmonic substrates without the use of either nanostructured templates or additional nanofabrication processes and thus offers an approach to plasmonic engineering for a myriad of applications ranging from structural color decoration to plasmonic microdevices and biosensors.
Keyphrases
  • magnetic resonance imaging
  • silver nanoparticles
  • energy transfer
  • single molecule
  • visible light
  • label free
  • quantum dots
  • optical coherence tomography
  • deep learning
  • convolutional neural network