Hydrogel-actuated tunable-focus microlens arrays mimicking compound eyes

TRANSDUCERS 2009 - 15th International Conference on Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 2302-2305

  Zhu, D ^a   Li, C ^a   Zeng, X ^a   Jiang, H ^a  

^a University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

Author keywords

Compound eyes; Field of view; Spherical structure; Thermo responsive hydrogel; Tunable focus microlens array; Water oil meniscus

Indexed keywords

COMPOUND EYE; FIELD OF VIEWS; MICRO-LENS ARRAYS; OIL MENISCUS; SPHERICAL STRUCTURES; THERMO-RESPONSIVE; THERMO-RESPONSIVE HYDROGEL;

ACTUATORS; DOMES; HYDROGELS; MICROOPTICS; MICROSYSTEMS; OPTICAL INSTRUMENT LENSES; PHOTOGRAPHY; PIEZOELECTRIC TRANSDUCERS; SOLID-STATE SENSORS;

MICROLENSES;

EID: 71449084540     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SENSOR.2009.5285896     Document Type: Conference Paper

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