Rapid, direct fabrication of antireflection-coated microlens arrays by photoembossing

Applied Optics

Volumn 47, Issue 35, 2008, Pages 6512-6517

  Hermans, Ko ^a   Hamidi, Shabnam Zaker ^a   Spoelstra, Anne B ^b   Bastiaansen, Cees W M ^a   Broer, Dirk J ^c  

^a DUTCH POLYMER INSTITUTE DPI   (Netherlands)

^b EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^c PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIREFLECTION COATINGS; COATINGS; MICROOPTICS; OPTICAL INSTRUMENT LENSES; POLYMER FILMS; THIN FILMS;

DIRECT FABRICATIONS; HOMOGENEOUS THICKNESS DISTRIBUTION; MICRO-LENS ARRAYS; PHYSICAL CONTACTS; POLYMER THIN FILMS; PROCESSING PARAMETERS; SOLUTION PROCESSABLE; SURFACE RELIEF STRUCTURES;

MICROLENSES;

EID: 60949107223     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.47.006512     Document Type: Article

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