Control of reflectance of liquid droplets by means of electrowetting

Applied Optics

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 808-813

  Kwong, Vincent H ^a   Mossman, Michele A ^a   Whitehead, Lorne A ^a,b  

^a Sunnybrook Technologies   (Canada)

^b Department of Physics and Astronomy ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTACT ANGLE; HYDROPHOBICITY; LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAYS; LIQUIDS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SURFACE TENSION; SURFACES; WETTING;

ELECTROWETTING; HEMISPHERICAL STRUCTURE; LIQUID DROPLETS;

LIGHT REFLECTION;

EID: 1142291660     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.43.000808     Document Type: Article

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