Wing scale microstructures and nanostructures in butterflies - Natural photonic crystals

Journal of Microscopy

Volumn 224, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 108-110

  Vertesy Z ^a   Balint Zs ^b   Kertesz K ^a   Vigneron, J P ^c   Lousse, V ^c   Biro L P ^a  

^a RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR TECHNICAL PHYSICS AND MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Hungary)

^b DEPARTMENT OF ZOOLOGY   (Hungary)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NAMUR   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Butterfly wing; Natural photonic crystals; Scale nanostructure; Structural colour

Indexed keywords

COLOR; HIGH RESOLUTION TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; MICROSTRUCTURE; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

BLUE COLORS; BUTTERFLY WINGS; COLOR MORPHOLOGY; LEPIDOPTERA; NATURAL PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; SCALE MORPHOLOGY; SCALE NANOSTRUCTURES; SPECTRAL CHARACTERIZATION; SPECTRAL MEASUREMENT; STRUCTURAL COLOR;

NANOSTRUCTURES;

ARTICLE; BUTTERFLY; COLOR; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; FORELIMB; LEPIDOPTERA; MICROSCOPY; NANOPARTICLE; NONHUMAN; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

LEPIDOPTERA; LYCAENIDAE; LYCAENINAE; PAPILIONOIDEA; POLYOMMATINAE; THECLINAE;

EID: 33750832006     PISSN: 00222720     EISSN: 13652818     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2818.2006.01678.x     Document Type: Article

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