Fast and large-area fabrication of plasmonic reflection color filters by achromatic Talbot lithography.

To overcome the limits of traditional technologies, which cannot achieve high resolution and high throughput simultaneously, here we propose, to the best of our knowledge, a novel method, i.e., achromatic Talbot lithography, to fabricate large-area nanopatterns fast and precisely. We successfully demonstrate reflection color filters with a maximum size of about 0.72×0.72  mm2 with a time of only 20 s that have colors similar to simulations and small-area devices fabricated by electron beam lithography. These results indicate the possibility of large-scale fabrication of plasmonic color filters with high resolution efficiently by the achromatic Talbot lithography method.