Reproduction, mass-production, and control of the morpho-butterfly's blue

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7205, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Saito, Akira ^a,b,c   Miyamura, Yusuke ^a   Ishikawa, Yoko ^a   Murase, Junichi ^a   Akai Kasaya, Megumi ^a,c   Kuwahara, Yuji ^a,b  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b RIKEN HARIMA INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^c JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Control; Fabrication; Morpho butterfly; Reproduction; Simulation; Structural color

Indexed keywords

ANGULAR RANGES; CHEMICAL CHANGES; CONVENTIONAL LITHOGRAPHIES; DEATH VALLEYS; FABRICATION PROCESS; HIGH REFLECTIVITIES; INTERFERENCE PHENOMENON; MASS PRODUCTIONS; MICRO-STRUCTURAL; MORPHO BUTTERFLY; NANO FABRICATIONS; NANO IMPRINTINGS; NANO-METER SCALE; NANO-PATTERNING; NANO-PATTERNS; OPTICAL SIMULATIONS; PRECISE CONTROLS; RANDOM STRUCTURES; REAL SPACES; REPRODUCTION; SIMULATION; STRUCTURAL COLOR; STRUCTURAL PARAMETERS;

ANGULAR DISTRIBUTION; COLOR; FABRICATION; INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS; LIGHT MEASUREMENT; NANOSTRUCTURES; OPTIMIZATION; REFLECTION;

STRUCTURAL PROPERTIES;

EID: 65349127723     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.808574     Document Type: Conference Paper

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