Absence of circular polarisation in reflections of butterfly wing scales with chiral Gyroid structure

Saba, M; Wilts, Bodo D; Hielscher, Johannes; Schroder-Turk, Gerd

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Absence of circular polarisation in reflections of butterfly wing scales with chiral Gyroid structure

Date

2014

Authors

Saba, M

Wilts, Bodo D

Hielscher, Johannes

Schroder-Turk, Gerd

Publisher

Elsevier

Abstract

The single Gyroid, a triply-periodic ordered chiral network of cubic symmetry, appears as a nanostructure in the green-colored wing scales of various butterflies. In lossless and perfectly ordered single Gyroid materials, the structural chirality leads to