Replica of the structural color for Papilio blumei butterfly

Mei-Ling Lo; Wen-Hsin Li; Shao-Ze Tseng; Sheng-Hui Chen; Chia-Hua Chan; Cheng-Chung Lee

doi:10.1117/1.JNP.7.073597

11 March 2013 Replica of the structural color for Papilio blumei butterfly

Mei-Ling Lo, Wen-Hsin Li, Shao-Ze Tseng, Sheng-Hui Chen, Chia-Hua Chan, Cheng-Chung Lee

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Funded by: National Science Council, Taiwan

Journal of Nanophotonics, Vol. 7, Issue 1, 073597 (March 2013). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JNP.7.073597

Abstract

Although the physics of structural color has been investigated, it remains a challenge to create artificial replicas of the natural photonic crystal structure. The concave multilayer replica of Papilio blumei butterflies is successfully fabricated by the following three main steps: self assembly of polystyrene spheres, deposition using an electron-beam gun, and inductively coupled plasma etching. The green iridescence of the wings of P. blumei is successfully reproduced.

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Mei-Ling Lo, Wen-Hsin Li, Shao-Ze Tseng, Sheng-Hui Chen, Chia-Hua Chan, and Cheng-Chung Lee "Replica of the structural color for Papilio blumei butterfly," Journal of Nanophotonics 7(1), 073597 (11 March 2013). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JNP.7.073597

Published: 11 March 2013

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