Playing with light in diatoms: Small water organisms with a natural photonic crystal structure

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6593, Issue , 2007, Pages

  De Stefano, Luca ^a   De Stefano, Mario ^b   Maddalena, Pasqualino ^c   Moretti, Luigi ^d   Rea, Ilaria ^a,c   Mocella, Vito ^a   Rendina, Ivo ^a  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b SECOND UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY MEDITERRANEA OF REGGIO CALABRIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Biophotonic materials; Marine diatoms; Optical characterizations; Photonic crystals

Indexed keywords

MARINE BIOLOGY; OPTICAL FILTERS; PHASE SEPARATION; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; PHOTONICS;

BIOPHOTONIC MATERIALS; MARINE DIATOMS; OPTICAL CHARACTERIZATIONS;

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

EID: 36248965123     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.723987     Document Type: Conference Paper

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