Microlenses with defined contour shapes

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 19, 2011, Pages 18665-18670

  Cadarso, V J ^a   Perera Nunez J ^b,c   Jacot Descombes, L ^a   Pfeiffer, K ^d   Ostrzinski, U ^d   Voigt, A ^d   Llobera, A ^e   Grutzer G ^d   Brugger, J ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EXTREMADURA   (Spain)

^c BIOMATERIALES Y NANOMEDICINA CIBER BBN   (Spain)

^d MICRO RESIST TECHNOLOGY GMBH   (Germany)

^e INSTITUTO DE MICROELECTRÓNICA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FABRICATION; INK; INK JET PRINTING; OPTICAL PROPERTIES;

CONTOUR SHAPE; FOCAL DISTANCES; FOCAL PLANE; NUMERICAL APERTURE; OPTICAL INK; SHAPE CONTROL; STANDARD DEVIATION;

MICROLENSES;

EID: 80052763847     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.018665     Document Type: Article

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