Shedding light on butterfly wings

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4438, Issue , 2001, Pages 85-95

  Vukusic, Pete ^a   Sambles, Roy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Butterfly microstructure; Colour; Diffraction; Multilayer; Photonic crystal

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL MICROSTRUCTURE; DIFFRACTION; OPTICAL MULTILAYERS; OPTICAL SYSTEMS; PHYSIOLOGY;

PHOTONIC CRYSTALS;

COLOR;

EID: 0035759395     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.451481     Document Type: Conference Paper

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