Electrically switchable Fresnel lens using a polymer-separated composite film

Optics Express

Volumn 13, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 4141-4147

  Fan, Yun Hsing ^a   Ren, Hongwen ^a   Wu, Shin Tson ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPOSITE MATERIALS; ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTROCHEMICAL ELECTRODES; ELECTRON DIFFRACTION; IMAGE QUALITY; LENSES; LIGHT POLARIZATION; LIGHT SCATTERING; LIQUID CRYSTALS; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; PHASE SEPARATION; PHOTOLITHOGRAPHY; SWITCHING;

DEVICE FABRICATIONS; FRESNEL LENS; SCATTERING-FREE; SWITCHING TIME;

PLASTIC FILMS;

EID: 21244452758     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.13.004141     Document Type: Article

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