Quantified interference and diffraction in single Morpho butterfly scales

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 266, Issue 1427, 1999, Pages 1403-1411

  Vukusic, P ^a   Sambles, J R ^a   Lawrence, C R ^b   Wootton, R J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^b DEFENCE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Butterfly; Diffraction; Iridescence; Multilayer interference; Structural colour

Indexed keywords

PIGMENT;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BUTTERFLY; COLOR; LASER; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFRACTION INDEX;

ANIMALIA; PAPILIONOIDEA;

EID: 0033595083     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.1999.0794     Document Type: Article

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