Substance specific chemical sensing with pristine and modified photonic nanoarchitectures occurring in blue butterfly wing scales

Piszter, Gábor and Kertész, Krisztián Imre and Vértesy, Zofia and Bálint, Zsolt and Biró, László Péter (2014) Substance specific chemical sensing with pristine and modified photonic nanoarchitectures occurring in blue butterfly wing scales. OPTICS EXPRESS, 22 (19). pp. 22649-22660. ISSN 1094-4087

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Abstract

Nowadays, the potential applications of photonic crystal type materials in sensing [1] are in the focus of attention [2,3]. As sensors penetr ate the everyday life, the vigorous development of sensorics tries to cover the need for miniature sensor systems which are capable of making distinction between vapors of different vola tile organic compounds (VOCs) and have fast response time combined with low energy consum ption [3]. Selective chemical sensors based on photonic nanoarchitectures, like those in the wing scales of butterflies possessing structural coloration [4] may offer cheap solution to this problem.

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