Structural color three-dimensional printing by shrinking photonic crystals

Abstract

The coloration of some butterflies, Pachyrhynchus weevils, and many chameleons are notable examples of natural organisms employing photonic crystals to produce colorful patterns. Despite advances in nanotechnology, we still lack the ability to print arbitrary colors and shapes in all three dimensions at this microscopic length scale. Here, we introduce a heat-shrinking method to produce 3D-printed photonic crystals with a 5x reduction in lattice constants, achieving sub-100-nm features with a full range of colors. With these lattice structures as 3D color volumetric elements, we printed 3D microscopic scale objects, including the first multi-color microscopic model of the Eiffel Tower measuring only 39 µm tall with a color pixel size of 1.45 µm. The technology to print 3D structures in color at the microscopic scale promises the direct patterning and integration of spectrally selective devices, such as photonic crystal-based color filters, onto free-form optical elements and curved surfaces.

Full text

Its licence does not allow us to show the full text. Read it at PubMed Central:

References 44

1. 1.
   Sub-micrometre accurate free-form optics by three-dimensional printing on single-mode fibres · 2016

   No notice
2. 2.

   Turner MD, et al. Miniature chiral beamsplitter based on gyroid photonic crystals. Nat. Photonics. 2013;7:801-805.

   Not in our library10.1038/nphoton.2013.233

3. 3.

   Shaari, S. & Adnan, A. J. Frontiers in Guided Wave Optics and Optoelectronics (InTech, 2010).

   Not in our library

4. 4.
   Holographic colour prints for enhanced optical security by combined phase and amplitude control · 2019

   No notice
5. 5.

   Bai L, et al. Bio-inspired vapor-responsive colloidal photonic crystal patterns by inkjet printing. ACS Nano. 2014;8:11094-11100.

   Not in our library10.1021/nn504659p

6. 6.

   Aoki K, et al. Coupling of quantum-dot light emission with a three-dimensional photonic-crystal nanocavity. Nat. Photonics. 2008;2:688-692.

   Not in our library10.1038/nphoton.2008.202

7. 7.

   Thiel M, Rill MS, von Freymann G, Wegener M. Three-dimensional bi-chiral photonic crystals. Adv. Mater. 2009;21:4680-4682.

   Not in our library10.1002/adma.200990171

8. 8.

   Goi E, Cumming BP, Gu M. Gyroid “srs” networks: photonic materials beyond nature. Adv. Opt. Mater. 2018;6:1800485.

   Not in our library10.1002/adom.201800485

9. 9.

   Cumming BP, Schröder-Turk GE, Debbarma S, Gu M. Bragg-mirror-like circular dichroism in bio-inspired quadruple-gyroid 4srs nanostructures. Light. Sci. Appl. 2017;6:e16192.

   Not in our library10.1038/lsa.2016.192

10. 10.

    Gansel JK, et al. Gold helix photonic metamaterial as broadband circular polarizer. Science. 2009;325:1513-1515.

    Not in our library10.1126/science.1177031

11. 11.

    Dolan JA, et al. Optical properties of gyroid structured materials: from photonic crystals to metamaterials. Adv. Opt. Mater. 2015;3:12-32.

    Not in our library10.1002/adom.201400333

12. 12.

    John S. Strong localization of photons in certain disordered dielectric superlattices. Phys. Rev. Lett. 1987;58:2486-2489.

    Not in our library10.1103/physrevlett.58.2486

13. 13.

    Yablonovitch E. Inhibited spontaneous emission in solid-state physics and electronics. Phys. Rev. Lett. 1987;58:2059-2062.

    Not in our library10.1103/physrevlett.58.2059

14. 14.

    Yablonovitch E. Photonic band-gap structures. J. Opt. Soc. Am. B. 1993;10:283-295.

    Not in our library10.1364/josab.10.000283

15. 15.

    Kinoshita S, Yoshioka S. Structural colors in nature: the role of regularity and irregularity in the structure. ChemPhysChem. 2005;6:1442-1459.

    Not in our library10.1002/cphc.200500007

16. 16.

    Xiao M, et al. Bioinspired bright noniridescent photonic melanin supraballs. Sci. Adv. 2017;3:e1701151.

    Not in our library10.1126/sciadv.1701151

17. 17.

    Xiao M, et al. Bio-inspired structural colors produced via self-assembly of synthetic melanin nanoparticles. ACS Nano. 2015;9:5454-5460.

    Not in our library10.1021/acsnano.5b01298

18. 18.

    Kim GH, An T, Lim G. Bioinspired structural colors fabricated with ZnO quasi-ordered nanostructures. ACS Appl. Mater. 2017;9:19057-19062.

    Not in our library10.1021/acsami.6b15892

19. 19.

    Park JG, et al. Full-spectrum photonic pigments with non-iridescent structural colors through colloidal assembly. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2014;53:2899-2903.

    Not in our library10.1002/anie.201309306

20. 20.

    Kolle M, et al. Mimicking the colourful wing scale structure of the Papilio blumei butterfly. Nat. Nanotechnol. 2010;5:511-515.

    Not in our library10.1038/nnano.2010.101

21. 21.

    Hou J, Li M, Song YJ. Patterned colloidal photonic crystals. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2018;57:2544-2553.

    Not in our library10.1002/anie.201704752

22. 22.

    Ding H, et al. Free-standing photonic crystal films with gradient structural colors. ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces. 2016;8:6796-6801.

    Not in our library10.1021/acsami.6b01991

23. 23.

    Ding H, et al. Structural color patterns by electrohydrodynamic jet printed photonic crystals. ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces. 2017;9:11933-11941.

    Not in our library10.1021/acsami.6b11409

24. 24.

    Dong Z, et al. Printing beyond sRGB color gamut by mimicking silicon nanostructures in free-space. Nano Lett. 2017;17:7620-7628.

    Not in our library10.1021/acs.nanolett.7b03613

25. 25.

    Kumar K, et al. Printing colour at the optical diffraction limit. Nat. Nanotechnol. 2012;7:557-561.

    Not in our library10.1038/nnano.2012.128

26. 26.

    Kristensen A, et al. Plasmonic colour generation. Nat. Rev. Mater. 2017;2:16088.

    Not in our library10.1038/natrevmats.2016.88

27. 27.

    Tan SJ, et al. Plasmonic color palettes for photorealistic printing with aluminum nanostructures. Nano Lett. 2014;14:4023-4029.

    Not in our library10.1021/nl501460x

28. 28.

    Gan Z, Turner MD, Gu M. Biomimetic gyroid nanostructures exceeding their natural origins. Sci. Adv. 2016;2:e1600084.

    Not in our library10.1126/sciadv.1600084

29. 29.

    Fischer J, Wegener M. Three-dimensional optical laser lithography beyond the diffraction limit. Laser Photonics Rev. 2013;7:22-44.

    Not in our library10.1002/lpor.201100046

30. 30.

    Fischer J, Wegener M. Three-dimensional direct laser writing inspired by stimulated-emission-depletion microscopy. Opt. Mater. Express. 2011;1:614-624.

    Not in our library10.1364/ome.1.000614

31. 31.

    Sakellari I, et al. Diffusion-assisted high-resolution direct femtosecond laser writing. ACS Nano. 2012;6:2302-2311.

    Not in our library10.1021/nn204454c

32. 32.

    Jonušauskas L, Mackevičiūtė D, Kontenis D, Purlys V. Femtosecond lasers: the ultimate tool for high-precision 3D manufacturing. Adv. Opt. Technol. 2019;8:241-251.

    Not in our library10.1515/aot-2019-0012

33. 33.

    Quan S, Juodkazis S, Murazawa N, Mizeikis V, Misawa H. Freestanding and movable photonic microstructures fabricated by photopolymerization with femtosecond laser pulses. J. Micromech. Microeng. 2010;20:035004.

    Not in our library10.1088/0960-1317/20/3/035004

34. 34.

    Seniutinas G, et al. Beyond 100 nm resolution in 3D laser lithography—post processing solutions. Microelectron. Eng. 2018;191:25-31.

    Not in our library10.1016/j.mee.2018.01.018

35. 35.

    Gailevičius D, et al. Additive-manufacturing of 3D glass-ceramics down to nanoscale resolution. Nanoscale Horiz. 2019;4:647-651.

    Not in our library10.1039/c8nh00293b

36. 36.

    Li X, Gao H. Mechanical metamaterials: smaller and stronger. Nat. Mater. 2016;15:373-374.

    Not in our library10.1038/nmat4591

37. 37.

    Bauer J, Schroer A, Schwaiger R, Kraft O. Approaching theoretical strength in glassy carbon nanolattices. Nat. Mater. 2016;15:438-443.

    Not in our library10.1038/nmat4561

38. 38.

    Zhang X, Vyatskikh A, Gao H, Greer JR, Li X. Lightweight, flaw-tolerant, and ultrastrong nanoarchitected carbon. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. 2019;116:6665-6672.

    Not in our library10.1073/pnas.1817309116

39. 39.

    Grimes A, et al. Shrinky-Dink microfluidics: rapid generation of deep and rounded patterns. Lab Chip. 2008;8:170-172.

    Not in our library10.1039/b711622e

40. 40.

    Zakhurdaeva A, et al. Custom-designed glassy carbon tips for atomic force microscopy. Micromachines. 2017;8:285.

    Not in our library10.3390/mi8090285

Cited by papers we hold 1

• Pixelated bifunctional metasurface-driven dynamic vectorial holographic color prints for photonic security platform · 2021
  No notice

Reads

A person counts once a day per paper. We keep no cookie and no address: a reader is a hash that changes every day. Any month under five reads shows no number.