Deformable liquid droplets for optical beam control

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 11904-11910

  Ren, Hongwen ^a   Xu, Su ^b   Wu, Shin Tson ^b  

^a Chonbuk National University   (South Korea)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; LIQUIDS;

DIELECTRIC FORCES; LIQUID DROPLETS; OPTICAL BEAMS; POTENTIAL APPLICATIONS; SHAPE CHANGE; SPHERICAL SHAPE; SURFACE PROFILES; TRANSITION SPEED;

DROP FORMATION;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; MICROFLUIDICS; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; REFRACTOMETRY; SOLUTION AND SOLUBILITY; YOUNG MODULUS;

ELASTIC MODULUS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LENSES; MICROFLUIDICS; REFRACTOMETRY; SOLUTIONS;

EID: 77952843504     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.011904     Document Type: Article

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