Voltage-programmable liquid optical interface

Nature Photonics

Volumn 3, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 403-405

  Brown, C V ^a   Wells, G G ^a   Newton, M I ^a   McHale, G ^a  

^a NOTTINGHAM TRENT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARBITRARY SURFACES; DIELECTROPHORETIC FORCES; ELECTRO WETTING; FOURIER COMPONENTS; OPTICAL INTERFACES; POLARIZATION-INSENSITIVE; SURFACE WRINKLING; TUNABLE MICRO-LENSES;

PHOTONICS;

OPTICAL DEVICES;

EID: 68049147277     PISSN: 17494885     EISSN: 17494893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphoton.2009.99     Document Type: Article

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