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Reflections on iridescent neck and breast feathers of the peacock, Pavo cristatus

Pascal Freyer1, Bodo D Wilts2, Doekele G Stavenga1

  • 1Computational Physics, Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials, University of Groningen, 9747 AG Groningen, The Netherlands.

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biophotonic crystaleffective-medium multilayer modellingfinite-difference time-domainmelanosomestransfer matrix

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