Abstract
The two-angle conformally evaporated-film-by-rotation technique (TA-CEFR) was devised to coat the wings of the monarch butterfly with nickel in order to form a 500-nm thick bioreplica thereof. The bioreplica exhibits structural colours that are completely obscured in actual wings by pigmental colours. Thus, the TA-CEFR technique provides a way to replicate, study and exploit hidden morphologies of biological surfaces.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 781-786 |
| Number of pages | 6 |
| Journal | Journal of Modern Optics |
| Volume | 64 |
| Issue number | 8 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Apr 28 2017 |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
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