A tunable liquid lens driven by a concentric annular electroactive actuator

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS)

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 909-912

  Wei, Kang ^a   Domicone, Nicholas W ^a   Zhao, Yi ^a  

^a The Ohio State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONDUCTING POLYMERS; ELASTOMERS;

ACTUATION VOLTAGES; ADAPTIVE FOCALIZATION; ELECTRICAL ACTIVATION; ELECTRO ACTIVES; ELECTRO-ACTIVE ACTUATORS; ELECTRO-ACTIVE POLYMERS; OPTICAL COMPONENTS; REFRACTIVE POWER;

MEMS;

EID: 84899024483     PISSN: 10846999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/MEMSYS.2014.6765789     Document Type: Conference Paper

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