Replicated, high-aspect-ratio micro-optical components fabricated from inorganic solgel materials

Applied Optics

Volumn 45, Issue 20, 2006, Pages 4843-4849

  Krause, Holger ^a   Mönch, Wolf Gang ^a   Zappe, Hans ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPECT RATIO; LENSES; MICROOPTICS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; SOL-GELS; SOLVENTS;

INORGANIC SOLGEL MATERIALS; MICRO-OPTICAL COMPONENTS; SOL COMPOSITION; XEROGEL LENSES;

OPTICAL DEVICES;

EID: 33749828859     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.45.004843     Document Type: Article

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