Electrowetting driven optical switch and tunable aperture

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 16, 2011, Pages 15525-15531

  Murade, C U ^a   Oh, J M ^a   Van Den Ende, D ^a   Mugele, F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC FIELDS; OPTICAL SWITCHES;

DRIVING VOLTAGES; ELECTRO WETTING; OIL FILMS; SWITCHABLE; WATER DROP;

WETTING;

EID: 79961079831     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.015525     Document Type: Article

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