Solar Aluminum Kitchen Foils with Omnidirectional Vivid Polarizonic Colors
- Submitting institution
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University of Durham
- Unit of assessment
- 12 - Engineering
- Output identifier
- 123978
- Type
- D - Journal article
- DOI
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10.1002/adom.201900737
- Title of journal
- Advanced Optical Materials
- Article number
- 1900737
- First page
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- Volume
- 7
- Issue
- 15
- ISSN
- 21951071
- Open access status
- Compliant
- Month of publication
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- Year of publication
- 2019
- URL
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https://doi.org/10.1002/adom.201900737
- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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4
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- No
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- The article demonstrates structural colour generation on kitchen Aluminium foil. The breakthrough is that this process does not, like conventional vapour deposition on pure thin films, require cleanroom conditions meaning high volume production will be possible using common industrial materials (aluminium foil) and fabrication methods (sputtering). The findings show great promise for large scale application as they can be used in solar cells as highly absorbing but coloured coatings. This is one of the first demonstrations of upscaling meta-materials and meta-surfaces taking them from laboratory to the real world. The paper was highlighted on the inside cover of the journal.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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