Design of All-Dielectric Metasurface-Based Subtractive Color Filter by Artificial Neural Network

• Published in: Materials Vol. 15; no. 19; p. 7008
• Main Authors: Wang, Jinhao, Lin, Zichun, Fan, Ye, Mei, Luyao, Deng, Wenqiang, Lv, Jinwen, Xu, Zhengji
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Basel MDPI AG 09.10.2022; MDPI
• Subjects: Analysis; artificial neural network; Artificial neural networks; Color; Computational linguistics; Displays; Efficiency; Geometry; Information storage; Language processing; Light; long short-term memory; Mathematical models; meta-atom; metasurface; Metasurfaces; Multilayer perceptrons; Natural language interfaces; Natural language processing; Neural networks; Parameters; Photonics; Simulation; structural color; subtractive color filter
• ISSN: 1996-1944; 1996-1944
• DOI: 10.3390/ma15197008

Structural colors produced by light manipulating at subwavelength dimensions have been widely studied. In this work, a metasurface-based subtractive color filter (SCF) is demonstrated. The color display of the SCF is confirmed by finding the complementary color of colors filtered by SCF within the color wheel. In addition, two artificial neural network (ANN) models are utilized to accelerate the metasurface forward prediction, and the long short-term memory (LSTM) shows much better performance than traditional multilayer perceptron (MLP). Meanwhile, we train an inverse ANN model established with LSTM to recover the optimal geometric parameter combinations of the meta-atoms. With the variation of the geometric parameters of meta-atoms, versatile color displays of structural colors are realized. The metasurface we propose exhibits good performance of transmissive-type structural color in visible range. The work provides a method for high-efficiency geometric parameter prediction, and paves the way to nanostructure-based color design for display and anticounterfeiting applications.