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Caption: The properties of butterfly wings may help us understand how to better diagnose cancer Participant category: Undergraduate student Department: Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering This image contains an arrangement of various images taken through a microscope. There is no color correction or grading, the color you see was captured under the microscope. The rainbow-like kaleidoscope pattern is created with dozens of images of butterfly wings as seen through a microscope through a Berek compensator. The central image is a tissue sample containing breast cancer. The colored squares are nanofabricated metasurfaces. Research Data Curation Program, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/rdcp) Phillips, Loren (2022). Disease Detection Inspired by Butterfly Photonics. In Art of Science. UC San Diego Library Digital Collections. https://doi.org/10.6075/J0445MNX
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Nanofabricated metasurfaces Butterflies Breast cancer Art and science Art of Science Contest - 2022
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