Adaptive dielectric liquid lens

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 19, 2008, Pages 14954-14960

  Ren, Hongwen ^a   Xianyu, Haiqing ^a   Xu, Su ^a   Wu, Shin Tson ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIELECTRIC LIQUIDS; DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; DROPS; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTRODES;

ADAPTIVE LENS; DIELECTRIC FORCES; DIELECTROPHORETIC EFFECTS; FOCAL LENGTHS; LIQUID LENS; PATTERNED ELECTRODE; SURFACE PROFILES; TUNABLE FOCUS;

LIQUIDS;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRODE; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; MICROFLUIDICS; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; SOLUTION AND SOLUBILITY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; ELECTRODES; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LENSES; MICROFLUIDICS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SOLUTIONS;

EID: 51849106556     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.014954     Document Type: Article

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