Detailed simulation of structural color generation inspired by the Morpho butterfly

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 19, 2012, Pages 21485-21494

  Steindorfer, Michael A ^a,b   Schmidt, Volker ^a   Belegratis, Maria ^a   Stadlober, Barbara ^a   Krenn, Joachim R ^b  

^a JOANNEUM RESEARCH   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; REFLECTION;

EXTENSIVE SIMULATIONS; LATERAL DIMENSION; REFLECTANCE SPECTRUM; REFLECTED COLORS; SPECTRAL POSITION; STRUCTURAL FEATURE; STRUCTURAL PARAMETER; VERTICAL DIMENSIONS;

COLOR;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BUTTERFLY; COLOR; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FORELIMB; HISTOLOGY; PIGMENTATION; TIME;

ANIMALS; BUTTERFLIES; COLOR; COMPUTER SIMULATION; PIGMENTATION; TIME FACTORS; WING;

EID: 84866260091     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.021485     Document Type: Article

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