Dual gratings interspersed on a single butterfly scale

Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Volumn 5, Issue 28, 2008, Pages 1387-1390

  Ingram, Abigail L ^a   Lousse, Virginie ^b,c   Parker, Andrew R ^a,d   Vigneron, Jean Pol ^b  

^a DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAMUR   (Belgium)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Blazed diffraction grating; Butterfly wing colour; Iridescent signal; Photonic structure; Spectrometer

Indexed keywords

CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; DIFFRACTION; SPECTROMETERS; SPECTROMETRY; THICKNESS MEASUREMENT;

BLAZED DIFFRACTION GRATING; BLAZED DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; BUTTERFLY WING COLOUR; DUAL GRATINGS; INCIDENT LIGHT; INDEPENDENT SIGNALS; IRIDESCENT SIGNAL; OPTICAL-; PHOTONIC STRUCTURE; PHOTONIC STRUCTURES; SINGLE STRUCTURE; SPECTRAL RANGES; SPECTROMETER;

LIGHT;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLAZED DIFFRACTION GRATING; BUTTERFLY; DIFFRACTION; GRATING; ILLUMINATION; LAMPROLENIS NITIDA; MALE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PHOTON; SPECTROMETER; SPECTRUM; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; COLOR; FORELIMB; HISTOLOGY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALIA;

CHITIN;

ANIMALS; BUTTERFLIES; CHITIN; COLOR; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; WING;

EID: 52749096049     PISSN: 17425689     EISSN: 17425662     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2008.0227     Document Type: Article

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