Abstract
Compound eyes of insects are attractive biological systems for engineered biomimicry as artificial sources of light, given their characteristic wide angular field of view. A blowfly eye was coated with a thin conformal fluorescent film, with the aim of achieving wide field-of-view emission. Experimental results showed that the coated eye emitted visible light and that the intensity showed a weaker angular dependence than a fluorescent thin film deposited on a flat surface.
Original language | English (US) |
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Article number | 94290C |
Journal | Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering |
Volume | 9429 |
Issue number | January |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 2015 |
Event | Bioinspiration, Biomimetics, and Bioreplication 2015 - San Diego, United States Duration: Mar 9 2015 → Mar 11 2015 |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
- Condensed Matter Physics
- Computer Science Applications
- Applied Mathematics
- Electrical and Electronic Engineering