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We propose a novel versatile colloidal crystal transfer technique compatible with a wide range of water-insoluble substrates regardless of their size, material, and wettability. There are no inherent limitations on colloidal particles material and size. The method possibilities are demonstrated via the colloidal transfer on quartz, glass substrates with a flat and curved surface, and via the fabrication of 3D colloidal structure with 5 overlaid colloidal monolayers. The process occurs at a room temperature in water and is independent from the illumination conditions, which makes it ideal for experimental manipulations with sensitive functional substrates. We performed the nanosphere photolithography process on a photosensitive substrate with a transferred colloidal monolayer. The metallized hexagonal arrays of nanopores demonstrated a clear resonant plasmonic behavior. We believe that due to its high integration possibilities the proposed transfer technique will find applications in a large-area surface nanotexturing, plasmonics, and will speed up a device fabrication process.
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The article focuses on depth-dependent visible band transmission effects in a symmetrical "insulator-metal-insulator" diffraction system based on a variable depth grating. These effects were studied both experimentally and theoretically in TM and TE polarizations. In particular, the existence of an optimized grating depth for plasmon-mediated resonant transmission was confirmed experimentally, and differences in TE and TM transmission behavior are discussed. We utilize a simple and flexible fabrication approach for rapid synthesis of apodized structures with adiabatically varying depth based on a beat pattern of two interferential lithography exposures. The present study can be useful in the fields of transmission-based optical security elements and biosensors.