A simple route to fabricate artificial compound eye structures

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 5775-5782

  Qu, Pubo ^a   Chen, Feng ^a   Liu, Hewei ^a   Yang, Qing ^b   Lu, Jing ^b   Si, Jinhai ^a   Wang, Yiqing ^b   Hou, Xun ^a  

^a XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER VISION; MICROLENSES; WET ETCHING;

A-THERMOMECHANICAL PROCESS; BIOLOGICALLY INSPIRED; CASTING PROCESS; COMPOUND EYE; CURVILINEAR SURFACES; FABRICATION PROCESS; FEMTOSECONDS; HEMISPHERICAL SURFACES; IMAGING PROPERTIES; MOTION DETECTION; POTENTIAL APPLICATIONS; SCALE-INVARIANT; THERMOMECHANICAL PROCESS;

FABRICATION;

BIOMIMETIC MATERIAL;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; COMPOUND EYE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSECT; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; BIOMIMETIC MATERIALS; COMPOUND EYE, ARTHROPOD; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; INSECTS; LENSES;

EID: 84857553179     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.005775     Document Type: Article

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