Liquid lens based on electrowetting: A new adaptive component for imaging applications in consumer electronics

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5639, Issue , 2004, Pages 143-148

  Crassous, Jerome ^b   Gabay, Claude ^b   Liogier, Gaetan ^a,b   Berge, Bruno ^a,b  

^a Varioptic   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

Author keywords

Focus control; Liquid actuator; Liquid lens

Indexed keywords

ABERRATIONS; ACTUATORS; CONSUMER ELECTRONICS; MIRRORS; OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; THERMAL EFFECTS; THERMAL EXPANSION; WETTING;

FOCUS CONTROL; HYDROPHOBIC LAYERS; LIQUID ACTUATOR; LIQUID LENSES;

LENSES;

EID: 20044383774     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.576523     Document Type: Conference Paper

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