Auto-tunable microlens chip for sensing applications

Proceedings of IEEE Sensors

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages 519-522

  Wang, Weisong ^a   Fang, Ji ^a   Varahramyan, Kody ^a  

^a LOUISIANA TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMAGING TECHNIQUES; MICROPROCESSOR CHIPS; OPHTHALMOLOGY; THERMAL EXPANSION; TUNING;

FOCAL LENGTH; NUMERICAL APERTURE; OPHTHALMOLOGIC MIMETIC SYSTEM;

MICROLENSES;

EID: 33846325581     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICSENS.2005.1597750     Document Type: Conference Paper

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