Fabrication of liquid-core waveguides by soft lithography

Advanced Materials

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 37-41

  Schueller, Olivier J A ^a   Zhao, Xiao Mei ^a   Whitesides, George M ^a   Smith, Stephen P ^b   Prentiss, Mara ^b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CURING; INTERFACIAL ENERGY; LIGHT ABSORPTION; LIGHT REFLECTION; LIGHT SCATTERING; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; OXIDATION; PHOTORESISTS; PLASMA APPLICATIONS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SILICONES; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

LIQUID CORE WAVEGUIDES; OPTICAL LOSSES; PLASMA OXIDATION; POLYDIMETHYLSILOXANE; SOFT LITHOGRAPHY;

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 0033531047     PISSN: 09359648     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1521-4095(199901)11:1<37::AID-ADMA37>3.0.CO;2-0     Document Type: Article

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