Technical University of Denmark You never see a faded peacock. The bright, iridescent, green and blue feathers don’t ... of a lot of colors by a very thin film of germanium material,” says ...

Structural color, which is the foundation that makes things like a peacock's tail feathers appear iridescent ... Structural coloration is caused by the interference of light as it travels through ...

Structural color is color caused by interference ... parallel thin layers, or other microstructures on a length scale of the color’s wavelength. A classic example are peacock tail feathers ...