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    • Materials Science
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    • Nanotechnology

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    • Structural colors offer a pigment-free alternative for coloration.
    • Titanium dioxide (TiO2) metasurfaces show promise for color saturation and loss control.
    • Single-dielectric metasurfaces often suffer from multipolar modes, reducing color saturation.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To design and demonstrate TiO2 semi-ellipsoidal nanostructures to suppress higher-order modes.
    • To achieve high color saturation and purity in structural coloration.
    • To provide a pathway for advanced structural color display devices.

    Main Methods:

    • Utilizing all-TiO2 semi-ellipsoidal nanostructures as unit cells in metasurfaces.
    • Leveraging continuously varying surface profiles to suppress unwanted modes.
    • Fabricating and characterizing the semi-ellipsoidal nanostructures for optical performance.

    Main Results:

    • The semi-ellipsoidal design effectively suppresses higher-order multipolar modes.
    • High reflectance with narrow full-width at half-maximum (FWHM) reflection peaks was achieved.
    • A wide color range from blue-green to orange-red was demonstrated without multilayer stacks.

    Conclusions:

    • Continuously varying surface profiles in nanostructures enhance color purity.
    • The proposed metasurface design simplifies fabrication and material deposition.
    • This approach enables the development of structural color displays with superior color quality.