Hoplia coerulea, a porous natural photonic structure as template of optical vapour sensor

Sébastien Mouchet; Bao Lian Su; Tijani Tabarrant; Stéphane Lucas; Olivier Deparis

doi:10.1117/12.2050409

Hoplia coerulea, a porous natural photonic structure as template of optical vapour sensor

Sébastien Mouchet, Bao Lian Su, Tijani Tabarrant, Stéphane Lucas, Olivier Deparis

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Abstract

Natural photonic structures found on the cuticle of insects are known to give rise to astonishing structural colours. These ordered porous structures are made of biopolymers, such as chitin, and some of them possess the property to change
colour according to the surrounding atmosphere composition. This phenomenon is still not completely understood. We investigated the structure found on the cuticle of the male beetle Hoplia coerulea (Scarabaeidae). The structure, in this
case, consists in a 1D periodic porous multilayer inside scales, reflecting incident light in the blue. The colour variations were quantified by reflectance spectral measurements using water, ethanol and acetone vapours. A 1D scattering matrix formalism was used for modelling light reflection on the photonic multilayer. The origin of the reported colour changes has to be tracked in variations of the effective refractive index and of the photonic structure dimensions. This remarkable phenomenon observed for a non-open but still porous multilayer could be very interesting for vapour sensing applications and smart glass windows.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	SPIE Proceedings
Number of pages	9
Volume	9127
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2050409
Publication status	Published - 2 May 2014
Event	SPIE Conference - Photonics Europe 2014 - Brussels, Belgium Duration: 14 Apr 2014 → 17 Apr 2014

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Conference	SPIE Conference - Photonics Europe 2014
Country	Belgium
City	Brussels
Period	14/04/14 → 17/04/14

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Mouchet, S., Su, B. L., Tabarrant, T., Lucas, S., & Deparis, O. (2014). Hoplia coerulea, a porous natural photonic structure as template of optical vapour sensor. In SPIE Proceedings (Vol. 9127). [91270U] https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2050409

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