Nanoarchitecture in the black wings of Troides magellanus: A natural case of absorption enhancement in photonic materials

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 8094, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Herman, Aline ^a   Vandenbem, Cédric ^a   Deparis, Olivier ^a   Simonis, Priscilla ^a   Vigneron, Jean Pol ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAMUR   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Absorption enhancement; Black body emissivity; Butterfly; Nanostructures; Structural absorption; Thermal regulation

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION ENHANCEMENT; ABSORPTION PEAKS; BLACK BODY; BLACK BODY EMISSIVITY; BUTTERFLY; COMPLEX REFRACTIVE INDEX; LORENTZ MODEL; NANO-ARCHITECTURE; NANO-STRUCTURED; PHOTONIC MATERIALS; PLANAR LAYERS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPES; SPECTRAL REGION; STRUCTURAL EFFECT; THERMAL RADIATIONS; THERMAL REGULATION; THREE-DIMENSIONAL (3D) MODEL; TRANSFER MATRIXES; VISIBLE LIGHT; VISIBLE RANGE;

BIOMIMETICS; LIGHT; NANOPHOTONICS; NANOSTRUCTURES; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

BIOMIMETIC MATERIALS;

EID: 80053498358     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.890946     Document Type: Conference Paper

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