High-throughput reproduction of the Morpho butterfly's specific high contrast blue

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 8339, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Saito, Akira ^a,b   Murase, Junichi ^a   Yonezawa, Masaru ^a   Watanabe, Hiroyuki ^c,d   Shibuya, Takuto ^a   Sasaki, Mitsuo ^d   Ninomiya, Takafumi ^e   Noguchi, Shunji ^e   Akai Kasaya, Megumi ^a   Kuwahara, Yuji ^a,b  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b RIKEN HARIMA INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^c Nikkiso Co Ltd   (Japan)

^d Ishiwata Co Ltd   (Japan)

^e Canon Machinery Inc   (Japan)

Author keywords

Absorber; Contrast; Fabrication; Mass production; Morpho butterfly; Reproduction; Structural color

Indexed keywords

ABSORBER; CONTRAST; MASS PRODUCTION; MORPHO BUTTERFLY; REPRODUCTION; STRUCTURAL COLOR;

BIOMIMETICS; ELECTROFORMING; FABRICATION; INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); OPTICAL DATA PROCESSING;

COLOR;

EID: 84860761617     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.915255     Document Type: Conference Paper

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