The role of random nanostructures for the omnidirectional anti-reflection properties of the glasswing butterfly

Nature Communications

Volumn 6, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Siddique, Radwanul Hasan ^a   Gomard, Guillaume ^b   Hölscher, Hendrik ^a  

^a KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NANOMATERIAL;

BUTTERFLY; COATING; HAZE; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OPTICAL PROPERTY; THEORETICAL STUDY; WING;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BUTTERFLY; FORELIMB; HEIGHT; INCIDENCE; NONHUMAN; OPTICS; RADIATION; REFRACTION INDEX; SIMULATION; THEORY; ANIMAL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT RELATED PHENOMENA; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ACRAEA ANDROMACHA; GRETA OTO;

ANIMALS; BUTTERFLIES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; NANOSTRUCTURES; OPTICAL PHENOMENA; WINGS, ANIMAL;

EID: 84928798432     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms7909     Document Type: Article

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