Mysterious coloring: Structural origin of color mixing for two breeds of Papilio butterflies

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 9232-9241

  Diao, Ying Ying ^a   Liu, Xiang Yang ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMIMETICS; LIGHT REFLECTION; MIXING; NANOSTRUCTURES; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS; OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

BIO PHOTONICS; BIOMIMICRY; COLOR MIXING; COLORATION MECHANISM; GREEN COLOR; ILLUMINATION ANGLE; INCIDENT LIGHT; MIXING MECHANISMS; OPTICAL PERFORMANCE; PHOTONIC NANOSTRUCTURES; POLARIZATION EFFECT; REFLECTION PEAKS; SEM; SPECTRAL PEAK; STRUCTURAL ORIGIN; STRUCTURAL SIMILARITY; ULYSSES; UV-VIS LIGHT;

COLOR;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BREEDING; BUTTERFLY; CLASSIFICATION; FORELIMB; LIGHT; PHYSIOLOGY; PIGMENTATION; SPECTROSCOPY; SURFACE PROPERTY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; BREEDING; BUTTERFLIES; LIGHT; PIGMENTATION; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; SURFACE PROPERTIES; WING;

EID: 79955815402     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.009232     Document Type: Article

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