They create color images by borrowing an optical trick at work in the iridescent wings of some butterflies ... Unlike conventional displays, which fade in bright light, the Mirasol display ...

Structural color is what makes the surface of soap bubbles iridescent and the body of a ... on the development of special ink that will not fade. Practical applications of this groundbreaking ...

Previously, scientists found that they could make non-iridescent structural colors by reflecting the light from less-well-ordered microstructures, but their methods have practical limitations.