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Researchers Spectrally Model Butterfly Wings

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In the past, researchers have tried to model butterfly wings as simple, planar thin-film structures to gain insight about their radiative effects, but they have produced results that fail to explain the blue iridescence of the Morpho menelaus. The problem, according to a team at Tufts University in Medford, Mass., is that the models only scratch the surface of the wing's scale structure, which can include 24 alternating layers of chitin and air to produce a thin-film structure as complex as many semiconductor chips. The Tufts researchers constructed their own model for spectral imaging and...Read full article

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