Theoretical and experimental analysis of the structural pattern responsible for the iridescence of Morpho butterflies

Optics Express

Volumn 21, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 14351-14361

  Siddique, Radwanul Hasan ^a   Diewald, Silvia ^a   Leuthold, Juerg ^a   Hölscher, Hendrik ^a  

^a KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FORESTRY;

ACTIVE STRUCTURES; E-BEAM LITHOGRAPHY; MORPHO BUTTERFLY SCALE; REFLECTION SPECTRA; SIMULATED STRUCTURE; STRUCTURAL PATTERN; THEORETICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL; WIDE-ANGLE REFLECTION;

NANOSTRUCTURES;

FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; FORESTRY; REFLECTANCE; SAMPLES;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; BUTTERFLY; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; COLOR; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FORELIMB; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; ULTRASTRUCTURE; PROCEDURES;

ANIMALS; BUTTERFLIES; COLOR; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT; MODELS, ANATOMIC; MODELS, CHEMICAL; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION; WING;

EID: 84879382888     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.014351     Document Type: Article

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