Publications OK SMART LAB

Continuous and scalable fabrication of flexible metamaterial films via roll-to-roll nanoimprint process for broadband plasmonic infrared filters
Authors
Jong G. Ok, Hong Seok Youn, Moon Kyu Kwak, Kyu-Tae Lee, Young Jae Shin, L. Jay Guo, Anton Greenwald, and Yisi Liu
Journal
Applied Physics Letters
Vol. (No.), pp.
101 (22), 223102 (Nov 2012)
Year
2014-
We demonstrate the continuous fabrication of large-area flexible metamaterial films via roll-to-roll (R2R) nanoimprint lithography (NIL) technique that can be conducted in an ambient environment at high speed. The plasmonic metal-insulator-metal structure is successfully fabricated by R2R NIL to continuously pattern the sub-wavelength scale metal disk array on flexible substrates. The patterned metal disks having varying diameters and sub-micron spacing with few defects lead to the desired broadband IR filtering performance at the designed dual-band, which correlates well with simulation analysis. Our method realizes a simple and high-throughput fabrication of plasmonic metamaterials for scalable and flexible optoelectronic and photonic applications.