Light emission from compound eye with conformal fluorescent coating

Raúl J. Martín-Palma; Amy E. Miller; Drew P. Pulsifer; Akhlesh Lakhtakia

doi:10.1117/12.2083826

Light emission from compound eye with conformal fluorescent coating

Raúl J. Martín-Palma, Amy E. Miller, Drew P. Pulsifer, Akhlesh Lakhtakia

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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)
Article number	94290C
Journal	Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
Volume	9429
Issue number	January
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2083826
State	Published - 2015
Event	Bioinspiration, Biomimetics, and Bioreplication 2015 - San Diego, United States Duration: Mar 9 2015 → Mar 11 2015

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Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
Condensed Matter Physics
Computer Science Applications
Applied Mathematics
Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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