All-metal structural color printing based on aluminum plasmonic metasurfaces

An all-metal structural color printing platform based on aluminum plasmonic metasurfaces is proposed and demonstrated with high color performance using only a one-step etching process on aluminum surface. A wide visible color range is realized with the designed metallic square-shaped disk arrays by simply adjusting the geometrical parameters of the disk etching depth, disk width and unit cell period. The demonstrated all-metal microscale structural color printing on aluminum surface offers great potential for many practical color related applications.