Biomimetic Anti-Reflective Material Eyed
21 December 2007, 19:00
Categories: biomimicry optics--photonics
Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology and Zhejiang University in China have examined the fine structure of the compound eyes of a household fly and have precisely replicated its entire structure. Why? The fly’s eye captures light photons in a manner that has inspired them to create anti-reflection nanostructures. “The surface of the fly eye is covered by highly packed protuberances, which potentially increases visual efficiency through increased photon capture for a given stimulus,” says Dr. Zhong Lin Wang. “We carefully examined the fine structure of the household fly compound eye and then completely replicated the entire configuration by alumina through a low-temperature atomic layer deposition process.”
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