Disclosed is a cost-effective method to fabricate a multifunctional collimator structure for contact image sensors to filter ambient infrared light to reduce noises. In one embodiment, an optical collimator, includes: a dielectric layer; a substrate; a plurality of via holes; and a conductive layer, wherein the dielectric layer is formed over the substrate, wherein the plurality of via holes are configured as an array along a lateral direction of a first surface of the dielectric layer, wherein each of the plurality of via holes extends through the dielectric layer and the substrate from the first surface of the dielectric layer to a second surface of the substrate in a vertical direction.

Various embodiments are described herein for an ocular device implantable in a user's eye and which has an adjustable optical element for varying one or more optical properties for the eye such as, but not limited to, providing a dynamically adjustable aperture stop to control the amount of incoming light, filtering incoming light, polarizing incoming light, and/or varying a depth of field for the eye.

Provided are a quantum dot display panel, a preparation method, and a display device. The quantum dot display panel includes a backlight module, a quantum dot color filter structure, a first reflecting layer and a second reflecting layer. The quantum dot color filter structure is positioned on a light exit side of the backlight module. The quantum dot color filter structure includes at least a red quantum dot color filter unit, a green quantum dot color filter unit and a composite quantum dot color filter unit. The first reflecting layer is arranged on a side of the quantum dot color filter structure facing away from the backlight module. The first reflecting layer covers the red quantum dot color filter unit and the green quantum dot color filter unit. The second reflecting layer is arranged on a side of the backlight module facing away from the quantum dot color filter structure.

In some disclosed embodiments, an image sensor is provided for recording incident radiation may include a first layer for filtering the incident radiation by attenuating incident radiation with a frequency below a cutoff frequency and a second light-sensitive layer for absorbing radiation passing through the first layer. The first layer may precede the second light-sensitive layer in a direction of propagation of the incident radiation and the first layer includes at least one aperture passing through the first layer to the second light-sensitive layer for propagating radiation therethrough. The cross sectional size of the at least one aperture may be configured to provide a cutoff frequency so that incident radiation with a frequency below the cutoff frequency is attenuated inside the at least one aperture and incident radiation with a frequency above the cutoff frequency propagates through the at least one aperture.

A plasmonic metasurface light filter is disclosed. The light filter comprises a planar array of unit cells. Each unit cell includes a plurality of light-transmissive nanoholes having a non-circular substantially elliptical cross-section. Each unit cell is individually tunable with respect to frequency and polarization of light to filter by varying geometry of its respective nanoholes.

Disclosed is a method to fabricate a multifunctional collimator structure In one embodiment, an optical collimator, includes: a dielectric layer; a substrate; and a plurality of via holes, wherein the dielectric layer is formed over the substrate, wherein the plurality of via holes are configured as an array along a lateral direction of a first surface of the dielectric layer, wherein each of the plurality of via holes extends through the dielectric layer and the substrate from the first surface of the dielectric layer to a second surface of the substrate in a vertical direction, wherein the substrate has a bulk impurity doping concentration equal to or greater than 1×10.sup.19 per cubic centimeter (cm.sup.−3) and a first thickness, and wherein the bulk impurity doping concentration and the first thickness of the substrate are configured so as to allow the optical collimator to filter light in a range of wavelengths.

The disclosure relates to an improved glass product having a multifunctional coating or a durable top coat over a functional coating. The glass product may include a functional coating on that is most effective on a surface exposed to various mechanical and chemical elements. The disclosed coating provides a durable protective coating over the functional layer to provide protection over the functional layer on an exposed surface. Alternatively, the functional coating may be applied to the protective coating with a porous, nano-structured surface, which protects the functional coating applied thereto.

A wavelength selective filter comprises a multi-layered structure alternately having a low refractive index layer and a high refractive index layer, a periodic structure layer facing the low refractive index layer of the multi-layered structure, the low refractive index layer having a refractive index between 1.30 and 1.60 and a thickness between 100 nm and 800 nm, the high refractive index layer having a refractive index between 1.70 and 2.20 and a thickness between 30 nm and 100 nm, and in a plane perpendicular to a thickness direction of the periodic structure layer, the multi-layered structure layer having a periodic structure made of metal or semiconductor.

An infrared reflective and electrically conductive composite film to coat on a substrate, the composite film comprising at least one infrared reflective layer. The composite film further comprises at least one metal layer of connected metal nanowires, each of the at least one infrared reflective layer and at least one metal layer being conformably covered by an optically transparent conductive layer.

Disclosed is a stealth device that has a double-band stealth function against millimeter-wavelength electromagnetic waves, has high absorption at a near-infrared laser wavelength, and has low emissivity of mid-infrared light and long-infrared light. The stealth device includes a wavelength-selective absorption pattern layer made of a material having electrical conductivity, wherein the wavelength-selective absorption pattern layer is composed of conductive thin-film patterns capable of causing plasmonic resonance at a first wavelength and a second wavelength different from the first wavelength; and a dielectric layer disposed below the wavelength-selective absorption pattern layer and made of a dielectric material.