Structural Colors in Nature and Butterfly-Wing Modeling

Optics and Photonics News

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2003, Pages

  Tayeb, Gérard ^a   Gralak, Boris ^b   Enoch, Stefan ^c  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^b AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^c FOM INSTITUTE AMOLF   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAND STRUCTURE; COLOR; DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; PHOTONS; PIGMENTS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SEDIMENTATION;

PERIODIC STRUCTURES;

LIGHT PROPAGATION;

EID: 0141868875     PISSN: 10476938     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPN.14.2.000038     Document Type: Review

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