Towards high-speed imaging of infrared photons with bio-inspired nanoarchitectures

Nature Photonics

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 195-200

  Pris, Andrew D ^a   Utturkar, Yogen ^a   Surman, Cheryl ^a   Morris, William G ^a   Vert, Alexey ^a   Zalyubovskiy, Sergiy ^a   Deng, Tao ^a   Ghiradella, Helen T ^b   Potyrailo, Radislav A ^a  

^a GE GLOBAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857833314     PISSN: 17494885     EISSN: 17494893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphoton.2011.355     Document Type: Article

References (50)

1. Rogalski, A., Antoszewski, J. & Faraone, L. Third-generation infrared photodetector arrays. J. Appl. Phys. 105, 091101 (2009).
2. Taylor, S. J. & Morken, J. P. Thermographic selection of effective catalysts from an encoded polymer-bound library. Science 280, 267-270 (1998). (Pubitemid 28178066)
3. Webster, J. G. (ed.) The Measurement, Instrumentation, and Sensors Handbook (CRC Press, 1999).
4. Niklaus, F., Vieider, C. & Jakobsen, H. MEMS-based uncooled infrared bolometer arrays-a review. Proc. SPIE 6836, 68360D (2008).
5. LeMieux, M. C. et al. Polymeric nanolayers as actuators for ultrasensitive thermal bimorphs. Nano Lett. 6, 730-734 (2006).
6. McConney, M. E., Anderson, K. D., Brott, L. L., Naik, R. R. & Tsukruk, V. V. Bioinspired material approaches to sensing. Adv. Funct. Mater. 19, 2527-2544 (2009).
7. Singamaneni, S. et al. Bimaterial microcantilevers as a hybrid sensing platform. Adv. Mater. 20, 653-680 (2008).
8. Ostrower, D. Optical thermal imaging-replacing microbolometer technology and achieving universal deployment. III-Vs Review 19, 24-27 (2006). (Pubitemid 44301918)
9. Watts, M. R., Shaw, M. J. & Nielson, G. N. Microphotonic thermal imaging. Nature Photon. 1, 632-634 (2007).
10. Shenoi, R. V., Rosenberg, J., Vandervelde, T. E., Painter, O. J. & Krishna, S. Multispectral quantum dots-in-a-well infrared detectors using plasmon assisted cavities. IEEE J. Quantum Electron. 46, 1051-1057 (2010).
11. Dhar, N. K. Advances in micro-nano technologies for imaging sensors. SPIE Conference on Micro- and Nanotechnology Sensors, Systems, and Applications 7318, Keynote Presentation 7318-01 (2009).
12. Schmitz, H. Thermal characterization of butterfly wings-1. Absorption in relation to different color, surface structure and basking type. J. Therm. Biol. 19, 403-412 (1994). (Pubitemid 124014618)
13. Brown, B. R. Sensing temperature without ion channels. Nature 421, 495-495 (2003).
14. Haché, A. & Alloghoa, G.-G. Opto-thermal modulation in biological photonic crystals. Opt. Commun. 284, 1656-1660 (2011).
15. Klocke, D., Schmitz, A., Soltner, H., Bousack, H. & Schmitz, H. Infrared receptors in pyrophilous ('fire loving') insects as model for new un-cooled infrared sensors. Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2, 186-197 (2011).
16. Vukusic, P., Sambles, J. R., Lawrence, C. R. & Wootton, R. J. Quantified interference and diffraction in single Morpho butterfly scales. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B 266, 1403-1411 (1999). (Pubitemid 29366479)
17. Kinoshita, S. & Yoshioka, S. (eds) Structural Colors in Biological Systems. Principles and Applications (Osaka University Press, 2005).
18. Kinoshita, S., Yoshioka, S., Fujii, Y. & Okamoto, N. Photophysics of structural color in the Morpho butterflies. Forma 17, 103-121 (2002).
19. Biró, L. P. & Vigneron, J. P. Photonic nanoarchitectures in butterflies and beetles: valuable sources for bioinspiration. Laser Photon. Rev. 5, 27-51 (2011).
20. Vukusic, P. Structural colour: elusive iridescence strategies brought to light. Curr. Biol. 21, R187-R189 (2011).
21. Guo, D., Lin, R. & Wang, W. Gaussian-optics-based optical modeling and characterization of a Fabry-Perot microcavity for sensing applications. J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 22, 1577-1588 (2005). (Pubitemid 41107539)
22. Golub, M. A., Hutter, T. & Ruschin, S. Diffractive optical elements with porous silicon layers. Appl. Opt. 49, 1341-1349 (2010).
23. Charrier, J. & Dribek, M. Theoretical study of the factor of merit of porous silicon based optical biosensors. J. Appl. Phys. 107, 044905 (2010).
24. Banerjee, S. & Dong, Z. Optical characterization of iridescent wings of morpho butterflies using a high accuracy nonstandard finite-difference time-domain algorithm. Opt. Rev. 14, 359-361 (2007).
25. Smith, G. S. Structural color of Morpho butterflies. Am. J. Phys. 77, 1010-1019 (2009).
26. Ding, Y., Xu, S. & Wang, Z. L. Structural colors from Morpho peleides butterfly wing scales. J. Appl. Phys. 106, 074702 (2009).
27. Yang, X., Peng, Z., Zuo, H., Shi, T. & Liao, G. Using hierarchy architecture of Morpho butterfly scales for chemical sensing: experiment and modeling. Sens. Actuat. A 167, 367-373 (2011).
28. Saranathan, V. et al. Structure, function, and self-assembly of single network gyroid (I4132) photonic crystals in butterfly wing scales. Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA 107, 11676-11681 (2010).
29. Saito, A. et al. Numerical analysis on the optical role of nano-randomness on the Morpho butterfly's scale. J. Nanosci. Nanotechnol. 11, 2785-2792 (2011).
30. Kambe, M., Zhu, D. & Kinoshita, S. Origin of retroreflection from a wing of the morpho butterfly. J. Phys. Soc. Jpn 80, 054801 (2011).
31. Driggers, R. G.,Webb, C., Pruchnic, S. J. Sr, Halford, C. E. & Burroughs, E. E. Jr. Laboratory measurement of sampled infrared imaging system performance. Opt. Eng. 38, 852-861 (1999).
32. Ghiradella, H. Structure of butterfly scales: patterning in an insect cuticle. Microsc. Res. Tech. 27, 429-438 (1994). (Pubitemid 24096863)
33. Kinoshita, S. & Yoshioka, S. Structural colors in nature: the role of regularity and irregularity in the structure. Chem. Phys. Chem. 6, 1442-1459 (2005).
34. Potyrailo, R. A. et al. Morpho butterfly wing scales demonstrate highly selective vapour response. Nature Photon. 1, 123-128 (2007).
35. Potyrailo, R. A. Enhancement in screening throughput and density of combinatorial libraries using wavelet analysis. Appl. Phys. Lett. 84, 5103-5105 (2004).
36. Andrady, A. L. & Xu, P. Elastic behavior of chitosan films. J. Polym. Sci. B 35, 517-521 (1997). (Pubitemid 127614202)
37. Cheng, J. C. & Pisano, A. P. Photolithographic process for integration of the biopolymer chitosan into micro/nanostructures. J. Microelectromech. Syst. 17, 402-409 (2008).
38. Ogawa, Y., Hori, R., Kim, U.-J. & Wada, M. Elastic modulus in the crystalline region and the thermal expansion coefficients of alpha-chitin determined using synchrotron radiated X-ray diffraction. Carbohydr. Polym. 83, 1213-1217 (2011).
39. Zhang, Z., Zhao, P., Lin, P. & Sun, F. Thermo-optic coefficients of polymers for optical waveguide applications. Polymer 47, 4893-4896 (2006). (Pubitemid 43964951)
40. Gralak, B., Tayeb, G. & Enoch, S. Morpho butterflies wings color modeled with lamellar grating theory. Opt. Express 9, 567578 (2001).
41. Kinoshita, S., Yoshioka, S. & Kawagoe, K. Mechanisms of structural colour in the Morpho butterfly: cooperation of regularity and irregularity in an iridescent scale. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B 269, 1417-1421 (2002). (Pubitemid 34810655)
42. Ingram, A. L. & Parker, A. R. A review of the diversity and evolution of photonic structures in butterflies, incorporating the work of John Huxley (The Natural History Museum, London from 1961 to 1990). Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. B 363, 2465-2480 (2008). (Pubitemid 351839866)
43. Yoshioka, S. & Kinoshita, S.Wavelength-selective and anisotropic light-diffusing scale on the wing of the Morpho butterfly. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B 271, 581-587 (2004). (Pubitemid 38365846)
44. Wagner, M., Wu, S. & Ma, E. Y. Pixel architecture for thermal imaging system. US patent 7,829,854 (2010).
45. TECHSPECw Infrared Achromatic Lenses Provide Near Diffraction-Limited Focusing. Edmund Optics, posted 5 May 2011; available at http://optics.org/ products/P000018926 (2011).
46. Korobkin, D., Urzhumov, Y. A., Zorman, C. & Shvets, G. Far-field detection of the super-lensing effect in the mid-infrared: theory and experiment. J. Mod. Opt. 52, 2351-2364 (2005). (Pubitemid 43148760)
47. Itkis, M. E., Borondics, F., Yu, A. & Haddon, R. C. Bolometric infrared photoresponse of suspended single-walled carbon nanotube films. Science 312, 413-416 (2006).
48. Zhang, Z., Xiao, G. Z., Zhao, P. & Grover, C. P. Planar waveguide-based silicapolymer hybrid variable optical attenuator and its associated polymers. Appl. Opt. 44, 2402-2408 (2005). (Pubitemid 40567066)
49. Donges, A. The coherence length of black-body radiation. Eur. J. Phys. 19, 245-249 (1998). (Pubitemid 128558497)
50. Tsai, C.-H. et al. Characterizing coherence lengths of organic light-emitting devices using Newton's rings apparatus. Org. Electron. 11, 439-444 (2010).