Discovery of ordered and quasi-ordered photonic crystal structures in the scales of the beetle Eupholus magnificus

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 11355-11364

  Pouya, C ^a   Stavenga, D G ^b   Vukusic, P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOURIER TRANSFORMS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

3D PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; ANGLE-INDEPENDENT; CO-EXISTENCE; FAR-FIELD; FOURIER TRANSFORM ANALYSIS; MICROSPECTROPHOTOMETRY; NATURAL BIOLOGICAL SYSTEM; PERIODIC ORDERS; PHOTONIC STRUCTURE; SCATTEROMETRY; SINGLE SPECIES; STRUCTURAL ORDERS;

PHOTONIC CRYSTALS;

NANOMATERIAL;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL STRUCTURES; ARTICLE; BEETLE; CHEMISTRY; CRYSTALLIZATION; FOURIER ANALYSIS; LIGHT; PHOTON; RADIATION SCATTERING; SPECTROSCOPY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMAL STRUCTURES; ANIMALS; BEETLES; CRYSTALLIZATION; FOURIER ANALYSIS; LIGHT; NANOSTRUCTURES; PHOTONS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

EID: 79958212498     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.011355     Document Type: Article

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