Design of a Structure with Low Incident and Viewing Angle Dependence Inspired by Morpho Butterflies

Overview

Journal Sci Rep

Specialty Science

Date 2013 Dec 6

PMID 24305852

Citations 3

Authors

Wanlin Wang

Wang Zhang

Jiajun Gu

Qinglei Liu

Tao Deng

Di Zhang

Hai-Qing Lin

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Abstract

Morpho butterflies are well known for their brilliant iridescent colors, which arise from periodic arrays of scales. These brilliant colors have a low angle dependence, in contrast to similar phenomena that are commonly caused by the periodic structures. We designed a structure with a low incident and viewing angle dependence inspired by Morpho butterflies. This structure was studied using the finite-difference time-domain method. The lamellae distribution of tree-like structure was found to be the determining factor for producing a low incident angle dependence. Two advanced models were designed to produce a low viewing angle dependence. Model I was constructed using two layers of scales. The particle swarm optimization algorithm was used to construct Model II. The angle dependence of Model II exhibited a large viewing angle range under various incident angles.

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