A nanofabrication method of metasurfaces based on colloidal assembly and femtosecond ablation is proposed and demonstrated. The metasurfaces on microspheres own the advantages of large area, low cost, long-range periodicity, high light-scattering efficiency and compatibility with liquid crystal display (LCD) manufacturing. Here, the diffractionunlimited nano-ablation is realized on the gold layer hemispherically coated on the assembled silica microspheres. The radius of ablated spot and half-pitch of ablated slit achieved in the experiment are ~130 nm and ~30 nm, respectively. Through changing the incidence angle of the femtosecond laser beam, some complicated ablation nanopatterns consisting of spots and slits would be realized.
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