Tunable solid-body elastomer lenses with electromagnetic actuation

Applied Optics

Volumn 50, Issue 19, 2011, Pages 3268-3274

  Liebetraut, Peter ^a   Petsch, Sebastian ^a   Mönch, Wolfgang ^a   Zappe, Hans ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; SILICONES;

ELASTIC STRAIN; ELECTROMAGNETIC ACTUATION; FINITE ELEMENT SIMULATIONS; FOCAL LENGTH TUNING; INDUCED STRAIN; LINEAR CORRELATION; MECHANICAL ACTUATIONS; RADII OF CURVATURE;

ELASTOMERS;

EID: 79960004917     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.50.003268     Document Type: Article

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