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SYLS: Life Sciences on the Nanometer Scale - Physics Meets Biology

SYLS 3: Symposium "Life Sciences on the Nanometer Scale - Physics Meets Biology"

SYLS 3.17: Poster

Wednesday, March 10, 2004, 16:00–18:30, B

Biological photonic crystals — •Thomas Fuhrmann, Melanie El Rharbi-Kucki, and Stefan Landwehr — Makromolekulare Chemie und Molekulare Materialien, Fachbereich Naturwissenschaften und Center for Interdisciplinary Nanostructure Science and Technology, Universität Kassel

Active and passive photonic crystals are interesting for a wide range of applications. We show that photonic crystal structures for visible light can be found in centric diatoms which exhibit a very efficient photosynthesis. We present electromagnetic wave calculations addressing the photonic structure of the algae cells and experimental results about the light distribution in the cell.