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Volume 107, Number 3, August 2014
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Article Number | 34004 | |
Number of page(s) | 5 | |
Section | Electromagnetism, Optics, Acoustics, Heat Transfer, Classical Mechanics, and Fluid Dynamics | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/107/34004 | |
Published online | 31 July 2014 |
Numerical study on the structural color of blue birds by a disordered porous photonic crystal model
1 Physics Laboratory, The Jikei University School of Medicine - Tokyo, Japan
2 Faculty of Engineering, Shinshu University - Nagano, Japan
3 Department of Life Sciences, Rikkyo University - Tokyo, Japan
4 Institute for Medical Science, Dokkyo University School of Medicine - Tochigi, Japan
5 Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo - Tokyo, Japan
6 Department of Integrated Human Sciences, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine - Shizuoka, Japan
(a) tsuyoshi_ueta@jikei.ac.jp (corresponding author)
Received: 19 June 2014
Accepted: 11 July 2014
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.
PACS: 42.25.Dd – Wave propagation in random media / 78.20.Bh – Theory, models, and numerical simulation / 87.85.J- – Biomaterials
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