Researcher: Thiago Alegre
Department: DFA/IFGW/Photonicamp
E-mail: alegre@unicamp.br
Research: In an interaction with the company Samsung we developed a plasmonic reflector that could have its color changed with the application of a voltage. In particular we were able to draw vivid colors in these devices that yielded a scientific paper in the journal ACS Appl. Nano Mater. (“Bright and Vivid Diffractive-Plasmonic Reflective Filters for Color Generation” https://doi.org/10.1021/acsanm.9b02508). Such reflectors could be used to generate color/images and static (or low slew rate) without high energy expenditure (since the color variation is done capacitively). Unfortunately we do not have students who can commit to this project, but if we can – through LIF – we could resume this line of research/development (this is the reason for my negative answer in item #4).
