A liquid-filled tunable double-focus microlens

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 4782-4790

  Yu, H B ^a   Zhou, G Y ^a   Chau, F K ^a   Lee, F W ^a   Wang, S H ^a   Leung, H M ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; LIQUIDS; PHOTOLITHOGRAPHY; STRUCTURAL DESIGN;

APPLIED PRESSURE; DESIGN CONCEPT; FABRICATION PROCESS; FOCAL LENGTHS; PERIPHERAL REGIONS; SURFACE PROFILES; THICKNESS VARIATION; TUNABILITIES;

MICROLENSES;

EID: 62549158204     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.004782     Document Type: Article

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