Nanopages
Volume/Issue:
Volume 8: Issue 2
Optical Properties of Bioinspired Disordered Photonic Nanoarchitectures
Authors: I. Tamáska 1 , Z. Vértesy 1 , A. Deák 1 , P. Petrik 1 , K. Kertész 1 , and László Biró 1
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  • 1 Research Centre for Natural Sciences Institute of Technical Physics and Materials Science P.O. Box 49 H-1525 Budapest Hungary
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1556/Nano.2013.00006
Page Count:
17–30
Publication Date:
01 Sep 2013
Online Publication Date:
25 Sep 2013
Article Category:
Research Article
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Bioinspired 1+2D nanoarchitectures inspired by the quasi-ordered structures occurring in photonic nano-architectures of biological origin, like for example butterfly scales, were produced by depositing a layer of SiO2 nanospheres (156 nm and 292 nm in diameter) on Si wafers, over which a regular multilayer composed from three alternating layers of SiO2 and TiO2 was deposited by physical vapor deposition. Flat multilayers were deposited in the same run on oxidized Si (324 nm SiO2 thickness) for comparison. Different types of disorder (in plane and out of plane) were purposefully allowed in the 1+2D nanoarchitectures. The positions of the specular reflection maxima for the flat multilayer and for the two different bioinspired nanoarchitectures were found to be similar. Additionally to this, the bioinspired nanoarchitectures exhibited angle independent diffuse reflection too, which was absent in the flat multilayer. Different model calculations were made to explain the specular and diffuse optical properties of the samples. Satisfactory agreement was obtained between experimental data and model calculations.

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Print ISSN:
1787-4033
Online ISSN:
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Keywords:
bioinspired; structural color; disordered; nanospheres; diffuse reflection; light coupling

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