Publications related to Structural coloration

Aperture-Controlled Fabrication of All-Dielectric Structural Color Pixels

Olivier Martin, Philippe Renaud, Arnaud Bertsch, Daniel Migliozzi, Evgenii Glushkov, Clémentine Sophie Sarah Lipp, Audrey Zoé Marie Jacquillat, Hsiang-Chu Wang

While interference colors have been known for a longtime, conventionalcolor filters have large spatial dimensions and cannot be used tocreate compact pixelized color pictures. Here we report a simple yetelegant interference-based method of creating microsc ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2023

Investigating Novel Optical Fibres for More Advanced Distributed Optical Fibre Sensing

Malak Mohamed Hossameldeen Omar Mohamed Galal

The ever-growing need for distributed optical fibre sensors (DOFS) in numerous fields and applications demands continuous research towards the advancement of the existing sensing systems. The convenience in the field of DOFS lies in the several degrees of ...

EPFL2022

Remarkable Color Gamut Enhancement of Dye Lacquers Using Corrugated Surfaces

Olivier Martin, Sebastian Mader

The visual appearance of any colorized object is usually determined by the spectral absorption of either pigments or dyes. One can however also colorize objects with structural colors that typically have an iridescent appearance, as seen on many beetles. T ...

2021

Mapping the local dielectric constant of a biological nanostructured system

Juan Pablo Vasco Cano

The aim of this work is to determine the varying dielectric constant of a biological nanostructured system via electrostatic force microscopy (EFM) and to show how this method is useful to study natural photonic crystals. We mapped the dielectric constant ...

BEILSTEIN-INSTITUT2021

Transparent composite nano-fibre based multi-layer textile

Klaus Benedikt Schönenberger, Thierry Pelet

A composite multi-layer textile (1), comprising at least one nanofibre layer (11) with nanofibres with diameters below 100nm and one support layer (12) with microfibres with diameters below three microns, wherein the layers (11, 12) were produced by electr ...

2021

Effects of multiple scattering on angle-independent structural color in disordered colloidal materials

Sofia Magkiriadou

Disordered packings of colloidal spheres show angle-independent structural color when the particles are on the scale of the wavelength of visible light. Previous work has shown that the positions of the peaks in the reflectance spectra can be predicted acc ...

AMER PHYSICAL SOC2020

A General Framework for Pearlescent Materials

Wenzel Alban Jakob, Ibon Guillen Serrano

The unique and visually mesmerizing appearance of pearlescent materials has made them an indispensable ingredient in a diverse array of applications including packaging, ceramics, printing, and cosmetics. In contrast to their natural counterparts, such syn ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2020

Structural investigation of InSe layered semiconductors

Helmuth Berger, Daniela Pacilè

During the last decade, III-VI layered semiconductors (GaSe, InSe, GaS, etc.) have emerged as potential candidates for various applications, such as FET and optoelectronic devices. The properties of this class of layered materials are strongly dependent on ...

2020

Dot pattern generation using thick sinusoidal phase grating under Gaussian beam illumination

Toralf Scharf, Maryam Yousefi

Far-field dot pattern generation is analyzed for a Gaussian beam source that illuminates a sinusoidal phase grating which is placed at a certain distance behind the beam waist. We obtain a bigger field of view with more numbers of points using a Gaussian b ...

SPIE-INT SOC OPTICAL ENGINEERING2019

Resonant Waveguide Gratings for Color-Selective Diffraction

Giorgio Quaranta

Resonant waveguide gratings (RWGs), also known as guided mode resonant (GMR) gratings or waveguide-mode resonant gratings, are dielectric structures where these resonant diffractive elements benefit from lateral leaky guided modes and can operate from UV t ...

EPFL2019

Theta laser

Camille Sophie Brès, Svyatoslav Kharitonov

An unidirectional short-wave infrared fiber laser, comprising a theta cavity, with a gain unit based on rare-earth cations-doped fiber, the theta cavity having a ring cavity with two additional 2 input ports×2 output ports directional couplers DC1 and DC2 ...

2018

Ultra-thin Bloch-surface-wave-based reflector at telecommunication wavelength

Hans Peter Herzig, Richa Dubey, Babak Vosoughi Lahijani

We experimentally demonstrate the optical properties of gratings engraved in a single-mode waveguide fabricated on top of a dielectric multilayer platform. The structure can be approached as a reflector for Bloch-surface-wavebased two-dimensional optical s ...

Optical Soc Amer2017

Light Scattering Enhancement at the Absorption Edge in Dewetting Droplets of Cyanine Dyes

Frank Nüesch, Jakob Heier, Florent Alexandre Boudoire

Diffraction properties of thin films of dewetted cyanine dye droplets are investigated and related to the complex refractive index. Strong changes in the index of refraction are often found near the absorption edge of organic dyes. Within a small window of ...

Wiley-V C H Verlag Gmbh2017

High-power femtosecond Raman frequency shifter

Christoph Peter Hauri, Mostafa Shalaby

We report on the generation of broadband, high-energy femtosecond pulses centered at 1.28 mu m by stimulated Raman scattering in a pressurized hydrogen cell. Stimulated Raman scattering is performed by two chirped and delayed pulses originating from a mult ...

Optical Soc Amer2016

Reactively Sputtered Nano-Structured Multilayer Coatings on Architectural Glazing for Active Solar Energy Façades

Stefan Mertin

Improving the aesthetic of solar thermal collectors would grant architects a huge potential for a perfect integration of solar panels into building façades: this can be achieved by coloured interference coatings on the cover glass. These coatings also open ...

EPFL2015

Biomimetic Pieris rapae’s Nanostructure and Its Use as a Simple Sucrose Sensor

Philippe Renaud, David Vincent Bonzon, Rodrigo Martinez Duarte

iomimetics often provides efficient ways to create a product incorporating novel properties. Here we present the replication of the Pieris rapae butterfly optical structure. This butterfly has white wings with black spots. The white coloration is produced ...

MDPI2014

Large-scale sub-100 nm compound plasmonic grating arrays to control the interaction between localized and propagating plasmons

Olivier Martin, Arash Farhang, Thomas Gerd Siegfried

Compound plasmonic resonances arise due to the interaction between discrete and continuous metallic nanostructures. Such combined nanostructures provide a versatility and tunability beyond that of most other metallic nanostructures. In order to observe suc ...

Spie-Soc Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers2014

Microwave photonics filtering technique for interrogating long weak fiber Bragg grating sensors

Luc Thévenaz

A system to interrogate photonic sensors based on long weak fiber Bragg gratings (FBGs) is presented and experimentally demonstrated, dedicated to measure the precise location of several spot events. The principle of operation is based on a technique used ...

SPIE2014

Nanostructuring and lattice dynamics of materials by femtosecond lasers

Ahmad Odeh

Physically, the colour of an object is a complex result of its intrinsic surface properties, its transmission properties and its emission properties, all of which contribute to the mix of wavelengths in the light leaving the surface of the object. Structur ...

EPFL2013

Melanic color-dependent antipredator behavior strategies in barn owl nestlings

Xavier Falourd

The arms race between predators and prey has led to morphological and behavioral adaptations. Different antipredator strategies can coexist within a population if each strategy is the result of a trade-off with competing demands. Antipredator behavior can ...

Oxford University Press2012