High angular and spectral selectivity of purple emperor (Lepidoptera: Apatura iris and A. ilia) butterfly wings

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 5817-5826

  Pantelić, Dejan ^a   Ćurčić, Srećko ^a   Savic Šević, Svetlana ^a   Korać, Aleksandra ^a   Kovačević, Aleksander ^a   Ćurčić, Božidar ^a   Bokić, Bojana ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON MICROSCOPES; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ANGULAR RANGE; ANGULAR SELECTIVITY; BUTTERFLY SPECIES; BUTTERFLY WINGS; IRIDESCENT COLORS; LEPIDOPTERA; PEAK REFLECTIVITY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPES; SPECTRAL SELECTIVITY; SPECTRAL WIDTHS; STRUCTURAL COLOR; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPE;

OPTICAL PROPERTIES;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BUTTERFLY; PHYSIOLOGY; REFRACTOMETRY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; BUTTERFLIES; REFRACTOMETRY;

EID: 79953230844     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.005817     Document Type: Article

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