Abstract

Optical metasurfaces provide a significant approach for the production of structural colors due to their excellent optical control abilities. Herein, we propose trapezoidal structural metasurfaces for achieving multiplex grating-type structural colors with high comprehensive performance originating from the anomalous reflection dispersion in the visible band. Single trapezoidal metasurfaces with different x-direction periods can tune the angular dispersion regularly from 0.036 rad/nm to 0.224 rad/nm to generate various structural colors, and composite trapezoidal metasurfaces with three kinds of combinations can achieve multiplex sets of structural colors. The brightness can be controlled by adjusting the distance between the trapezoids in a pair accurately. The designed structural colors have higher saturation than traditional pigmentary colors, whose excitation purity can reach 1.00. The gamut is about 158.1% of the Adobe RGB standard. This research has application potential in ultrafine displays, information encryption, optical storage, and anti-counterfeit tagging.

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