Fabrication of microlens array diffuser films with controllable haze distribution by combination of breath figures and replica molding methods

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 24, 2008, Pages 19978-19986

  Wu, Cheng Yi ^a   Chiang, Ting Hsuan ^a   Hsu, Chia Chen ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL CHUNG CHENG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFUSION; MICROLENSES; MOLDING; MOLDS; OPTICAL INSTRUMENT LENSES;

CHAMBER TEMPERATURE; DIFFUSION EFFECTS; MICROLENS ARRAYS; MOLDING METHODS; POLYDIMETHYLSILOXANE PDMS; REPLICA MOLDING; SUBSTRATE TEMPERATURE; THEORETICAL VALUES;

HUMIDITY CONTROL;

EID: 56749182325     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.019978     Document Type: Article

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