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SUBMITTER: England G
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4226094 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
England Grant G Kolle Mathias M Kim Philseok P Khan Mughees M Muñoz Philip P Mazur Eric E Aizenberg Joanna J
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20141006 44
Recently, diffraction elements that reverse the color sequence normally observed in planar diffraction gratings have been found in the wing scales of the butterfly Pierella luna. Here, we describe the creation of an artificial photonic material mimicking this reverse color-order diffraction effect. The bioinspired system consists of ordered arrays of vertically oriented microdiffraction gratings. We present a detailed analysis and modeling of the coupling of diffraction resulting from individual ...[more]