scholarly journals Measuring and modelling the reflectance spectra of male Swinhoe's pheasant feather barbules

2015 ◽  
Vol 12 (105) ◽  
pp. 20141354 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cheng-Chung Lee ◽  
Shih-Fang Liao ◽  
Pete Vukusic

A range of iridescent colour appearances are presented by male Swinhoe's pheasants' ( Lophura swinhoii ) mantle feathers. Two distinct regions of the open pennaceous portion of its feathers display particularly conspicuous angle-dependent reflection. A bright blue band appears in one region at normal incidence that spatially shifts to another at higher illumination angles. The two-dimensional photonic crystal-like nanostructures inside the barbules of these two regions are similar. However, this study found that the spatial variation in their colour appearance results from a continuously changing orientation of barbules with respect to the alignment of their associated barb. A multi-layered rigorous coupled-wave analysis approach was used to model the reflections from the identified intra-barbule structures. Well-matched simulated and measured reflectance spectra, at both normal and oblique incidence, support our elucidation of the origin of the bird's distinctive feather colour appearance.

2016 ◽  
Vol 30 (06) ◽  
pp. 1650070 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wenhao Shu ◽  
Bo Wang ◽  
Hongtao Li ◽  
Liang Lei ◽  
Li Chen ◽  
...  

An encapsulated grating with a metal slab is designed as a reflection three-port beam splitter at the wavelength of 1550 nm under normal incidence. Such a new grating is aimed to separate energies into the ±1st and the 0th orders for both TE and TM polarizations. The grating parameters such as grating period, duty cycle and grating depth are optimized by using rigorous coupled-wave analysis. Based on optimized grating parameters, efficiencies can reach more than 32% with the polarization-independent property. It indicates that reflection three-port beam splitter with high efficiency can be obtained by the encapsulated grating. Moreover, the presented reflection three-port grating has advantages of wide incident wavelength range and angular bandwidth, which would be useful in practical application.


2020 ◽  
pp. 2150004
Author(s):  
CHEN FU ◽  
BO WANG ◽  
JIMIN FANG

In this paper, the sandwiched configuration is designed under normal incidence with zeroth order eliminated so as to design a highly-efficient four-port output with polarization independence. Through rigorous coupled-wave analysis method, the splitting parameters are calculated to get a good polarization-independence effect, where the four reflective efficiencies are over 20%, respectively. The final findings show that this grating has good diffraction characteristics and high stability in practice. Furthermore, the coupling mechanism of grating can be explained for the cancellation of the zeroth order by studying the overlap integral and the electric field distribution.


2011 ◽  
Vol 211-212 ◽  
pp. 465-468
Author(s):  
De Wei Chen

Since the development almost a decade ago of the first biosensor based on surface plasmon resonance (SPR), the use of this technique has increased steadily. In this study, we theoretically investigated the sensing character of SPR sensor with reflection type metallic with Rigorous Coupled Wave Analysis (RCWA) method, and the mechanism is analyzed by the field distribution. It is found that the sensitivity of negative diffraction order, which goes higher quickly as the resonant angle increases, is much greater than that of positive diffraction order.


2021 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ryoya Hiramatsu ◽  
Ryo Takahashi ◽  
Ryoto Fujiki ◽  
Keisuke Hozo ◽  
Kanato Sawai ◽  
...  

In this paper, a hybrid numerical simulation tool is introduced and performed for GaInN-based light-emitting diodes (LEDs) with metal-embedded nanostructure to theoretically predict external quantum efficiency (EQE), which composed of finite-difference time-domain, rigorous coupled wave analysis, and ray tracing. The advantage is that the proposed method provides results supported by sufficient physical background within a reasonable calculation time. From the simulation results, the EQE of LED with Ag-nanoparticles embedded nanostructure is expected to be enhanced by as high as ∼1.6 times the conventional LED device in theory.


2012 ◽  
Vol 571 ◽  
pp. 427-432 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiao Min Jin ◽  
Douglas Alan Cattarusa ◽  
Michael James Marshall

This paper presents the simulation results of top nano-grating on solar cell using rigorous coupled wave analysis (RCWA) method. However, compared to other simulation results, we calculated weighted total transmission of solar cell according to Sun spectrum and Silicon photo detector responsivity. Our optimization shows that the top grating with period 200nm, width 40nm, and height 150nm is the optimization structure. This case has 0.45544 total weighted transmission powers and is about 70.9% improvement compared to the non-grating case.


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