Digital cameras with designs inspired by the arthropod eye

Nature

Volumn 497, Issue 7447, 2013, Pages 95-99

  Song, Young Min ^a   Xie, Yizhu ^a   Malyarchuk, Viktor ^a   Xiao, Jianliang ^b   Jung, Inhwa ^c   Choi, Ki Joong ^d   Liu, Zhuangjian ^e   Park, Hyunsung ^f   Lu, Chaofeng ^g,h   Kim, Rak Hwan ^a   Li, Rui ^h,i   Crozier, Kenneth B ^f   Huang, Yonggang ^h   Rogers, John A ^a,d  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^b UCB 450   (United States)

^c Kyung Hee University   (South Korea)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^e INSTITUTE OF HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING   (Singapore)

^f HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^h Northwestern University   (United States)

ⁱ DALIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHROMIUM; GOLD;

ARTHROPOD; DESIGN; DIGITAL IMAGE; EYE; IMAGING METHOD;

ANT; ARTICLE; BEETLE; BIOMECHANICS; CAMERA; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DIGITAL CAMERA; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; HYLASTES NIGRINUS; IMAGING; NANOENCAPSULATION; NANOFABRICATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; SOLENOPSIS FUGAX;

ANIMALS; ANTS; ARTHROPODS; BEETLES; BIOMIMETIC MATERIALS; BIOMIMETICS; COMPOUND EYE, ARTHROPOD; ENDOSCOPES; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; PHOTOGRAPHY; SILICON;

EID: 84877257098     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature12083     Document Type: Article

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