Variable liquid lenses for electronic products

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6034, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Hendriks, Benno H W ^a   Kuiper, Stein ^a   Van As, Marco A J ^a   Renders, Christel A ^a   Tukker, Teus W ^a  

^a PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Camera; Electrowetting; Illumination system; Liquid lens; Optical recording

Indexed keywords

CAMERAS; ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT; MANUFACTURE; OPTICAL RECORDING; SOLUBILITY;

IMMISCIBLE LIQUIDS; LIQUID LENSES; ZOOM CAMERAS;

LENSES;

EID: 33645143851     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.668085     Document Type: Conference Paper

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