A high speed electrically switching reflective structural color display with large color gamut
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Published on: February 27, 2019
Wenqiang Wang1, Zhiqiang Guan1, Hongxing Xu2
1School of Physics and Technology, Center for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, and Key Laboratory of Artificial Micro- and Nano-structures of Ministry of Education, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China. zhiqiang.guan@whu.edu.cn hxxu@whu.edu.cn.
Abstract:
Structural colors, which originate from the interactions between light and nanometer-scale structured materials, have the advantages of durability and environmentally friendly display compared with pigments and dyes. A large color gamut, high-speed, electrically-switching reflective structural color display is critical to dynamically tunable reflective structural color devices. Here, we report a theoretical design of an electrically switching reflective structural color display device with a large color gamut (∼157% sRGB, standard red green blue) and high speed (>10 MHz). Benefiting from the electric-switchable Epsilon-Near-Zero material and 1D dielectric grating with guided-mode resonance, the reflective display device can be electrically turned on or turned off by switching between a narrow band reflector and a transparent film. This design provides a promising solution towards reflective color displays, optical switches, spatial light modulators and so on.

