Numerical study on the structural color of blue birds by a disordered porous photonic crystal model

It has been observationally confirmed that the color of birds, such as kingfisher and red-flanked bluetail, is a structural color owing to the interference of the light within a sponge structure inside a barb. In this study, we consider the air rod photonic crystal to which disorder is introduced in...

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Published inEurophysics letters Vol. 107; no. 3; pp. 34004 - P1-34004-p5
Main Authors Ueta, Tsuyoshi, Fujii, Garuda, Morimoto, Gen, Miyamoto, Kiyoshi, Kosaku, Akinori, Kuriyama, Takeo, Hariyama, Takahiko
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Les Ulis EDP Sciences, IOP Publishing and Società Italiana di Fisica 01.08.2014
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42.25.Dd
78.20.Bh
87.85.J
Birds
Color
Crystal structure
Mathematical analysis
Mathematical models
Optical properties
Photonic crystals
Sponges
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ISSN0295-5075
1286-4854
DOI10.1209/0295-5075/107/34004

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Summary:It has been observationally confirmed that the color of birds, such as kingfisher and red-flanked bluetail, is a structural color owing to the interference of the light within a sponge structure inside a barb. In this study, we consider the air rod photonic crystal to which disorder is introduced into the translation vectors and the radius as a model of the structural color of red-flanked bluetail; the optical property of the model is numerically analyzed and is compared with that of the structural color.
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ISSN:0295-5075
1286-4854
DOI:10.1209/0295-5075/107/34004