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The increasing miniaturization and resolution of consumer electronics poses quandaries for generating colour in imaging devices, which plasmonic nanostructures may be able to overcome.

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Figure 1: An image captured using a commercial CMOS camera but with a plasmonic colour filter array instead of the standard dye-based one, after full computational reconstruction and signal processing.
Figure 2: Optical micrograph of the Lena image created using silver nanodiscs of varying size on a backreflector.

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Dean, N. Colouring at the nanoscale. Nature Nanotech 10, 15–16 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/nnano.2014.316

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