Mining the Smartness of Insect Ultrastructures for Advanced Imaging and Illumination

Biological wonders, found in insects such as antireflecting moth eyes, compound eyes in a honey bee, firefly lanterns, and iridescent butterfly wings, inspire human beings for advanced light imaging and illumination technologies. Dazzling advances of micro‐ and nanofabrication technologies allow ins...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Published in:Advanced functional materials 2018-06, Vol.28 (24), p.n/a
Main Authors: Chung, Taerin, Lee, Youngseop, Yang, Sung‐Pyo, Kim, Kisoo, Kang, Byoung‐Hoon, Jeong, Ki‐Hun
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
artificial compound eyes
bioinspired structures
Butterflies & moths
Field of view
Fireflies
hierarchical biostructures
Illumination
Imaging
Insects
Lanterns
Light emitting diodes
Materials science
Metamaterials
microlens array
Miniaturization
Nanofabrication
Photonics
Plasmonics
structural colors
Citations: Items that this one cites
Items that cite this one
Online Access:Get full text
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Description
Summary:Biological wonders, found in insects such as antireflecting moth eyes, compound eyes in a honey bee, firefly lanterns, and iridescent butterfly wings, inspire human beings for advanced light imaging and illumination technologies. Dazzling advances of micro‐ and nanofabrication technologies allow insect‐inspired structures, for example, artificial compound eyes with a wide field of view and low aberration, bioinspired light‐emitting diode lenses, and structural coloration templates, featuring miniaturization. Besides, plasmonics and metamaterials offer an unprecedented approach that overcomes the diffraction limit and unveils unknown optical phenomena in ultrastructures inspired by insects. Here, insect‐inspired photonic structures for light imaging, light extraction, and structural coloration are reviewed, and photonic functions and structure fabrications inspired by insects that can be applied in advanced imaging and illumination applications are discussed. Biological marvels, found in insects such as compound eyes and firefly lanterns, inspire human beings for advanced light imaging and illumination technologies. This article focuses on recent progress of photonic micro/nano structures inspired from insect smartness regarding with functions and fabrication methods. In addition, perspectives and prospects using plasmonics and metamaterials for insect inspired photonics are discussed.
ISSN:1616-301X
1616-3028
DOI:10.1002/adfm.201705912