Bright-White Beetle Scales Optimise Multiple Scattering of Light (Articolo in rivista)

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  • Bright-White Beetle Scales Optimise Multiple Scattering of Light (Articolo in rivista) (literal)
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  • 2014-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 (literal)
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  • 10.1038/srep06075 (literal)
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  • Burresi, Matteo; Cortese, Lorenzo; Pattelli, Lorenzo; Kolle, Mathias; Vukusic, Peter; Wiersma, Diederik S.; Steiner, Ullrich; Vignolini, Silvia (2014)
    Bright-White Beetle Scales Optimise Multiple Scattering of Light
    in Scientific reports (Nature Publishing Group)
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  • Burresi, Matteo; Cortese, Lorenzo; Pattelli, Lorenzo; Kolle, Mathias; Vukusic, Peter; Wiersma, Diederik S.; Steiner, Ullrich; Vignolini, Silvia (literal)
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  • 6075 (literal)
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  • 6075 (literal)
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  • 4 (literal)
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  • 7 (literal)
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  • European Laboratory for Non-linear Spectroscopy (LENS), Università di Firenze, 50019 Sesto Fiorentino (FI), Italy; Istituto Nazionale di Ottica (CNR-INO), Largo Fermi 6, 50125 Firenze (FI), Italy; Università di Firenze, Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia, 50019 Sesto Fiorentino (FI), Italy; School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, 29 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA 02138, United States; Thin Film Photonics, School of Physics, Exeter University, Exeter EX4 4QL, United Kingdom; Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics, University of Cambridge, J. J. Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0HE, United Kingdom; Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, Lensfield Road, Cambridge CB2 1EW, United Kingdom; Department of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139, United States (literal)
Titolo
  • Bright-White Beetle Scales Optimise Multiple Scattering of Light (literal)
Abstract
  • Whiteness arises from diffuse and broadband reflection of light typically achieved through optical scattering in randomly structured media. In contrast to structural colour due to coherent scattering, white appearance generally requires a relatively thick system comprising randomly positioned high refractive-index scattering centres. Here, we show that the exceptionally bright white appearance of Cyphochilus and Lepidiota stigma beetles arises from a remarkably optimised anisotropy of intra-scale chitin networks, which act as a dense scattering media. Using time-resolved measurements, we show that light propagating in the scales of the beetles undergoes pronounced multiple scattering that is associated with the lowest transport mean free path reported to date for low-refractive-index systems. Our light transport investigation unveil high level of optimisation that achieves high-brightness white in a thin low-mass-per-unit-area anisotropic disordered nanostructure. (literal)
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