Fano Resonant Optical coatings platform for Full Gamut and High Purity Structural Colors

TL;DR

This paper presents a Fano resonant optical coatings platform that enables full gamut, high purity, and scalable structural colors suitable for various applications like anti-counterfeiting and data storage.

Contribution

It introduces Fano resonant optical coatings (FROCs) as a novel platform achieving full color access, high purity, and scalability, with enhanced color gamut coverage.

Findings

Color purity up to 97% achieved

Gamut coverage exceeds 99% of sRGB and Adobe spaces

FROCs outperform existing structural coloring methods in certain applications

Abstract

Structural coloring is a photostable and environmentally friendly coloring approach that harnesses optical interference and nanophotonic resonances to obtain colors with a range of applications including steganography, d\'ecor, data storage, and anticounterfeiting measures. We show that optical coatings exhibiting the photonic Fano Resonance is an ideal platform for structural coloring -- it provides full color access, high color purity, high brightness, controlled iridescence, and scalable manufacturability. We show that an additional oxide film deposited on Fano resonant optical coatings (FROCs) increases the color purity (up to 97%) and color gamut coverage range (> 99% coverage of the sRGB and Adobe color spaces). For coloring applications that do not require high spatial resolution, FROCs provide a significant advantage over existing structural coloring schemes.