Reproduction of the Morpho butterfly's blue: Arbitration of contradicting factors

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5526, Issue , 2004, Pages 188-194

  Saito, Akira ^a,b,c   Yoshioka, Shinya ^a   Kinoshita, Shuichi ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b RIKEN HARIMA INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^c Japan Science and Technology Agency   (Japan)

Author keywords

Discrete multilayer; Disordered system; Fabrication; Morpho butterfly; Structural color

Indexed keywords

DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; FABRICATION; LIGHT SCATTERING; MULTILAYERS; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; PIGMENTS; PROTEINS; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE MANUFACTURE;

DISCRETE MULTILAYERS; DISORDERED SYSTEMS; MORPHO BUTTERFLY; STRUCTURAL COLOR;

COLOR MATCHING;

EID: 19744383047     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.559086     Document Type: Conference Paper

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