Fabricating low cost and high performance elastomer lenses using hanging droplets

Biomedical Optics Express

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 1626-1635

  Lee, W M ^a,b,c   Upadhya, A ^a   Reece, P J ^b   Phan, Tri Giang ^b,c  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^c GARVAN INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELASTOMERS; FABRICATION; LIGHT EMITTING DIODES; MICROCHANNELS; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; SILICONES;

COMPLEX ENGINEERING; CONCOMITANT DECREASE; EXPENSIVE EQUIPMENTS; FABRICATION TECHNIQUE; HIGH PERFORMANCE ELASTOMERS; MANUFACTURING TECHNIQUES; MICROSCOPIC STRUCTURES; POLYDIMETHYLSILOXANE PDMS;

DROPS;

DIMETICONE; ELASTOMER; SILASTIC;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL REACTION; COLLIMATOR; CONTACT LENS; DIFFRACTION; FABRICATION; HANGING DROPLET METHOD; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGING; MICROSCOPY; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; OPTICAL RESOLUTION; OPTICS; REFRACTION INDEX; SPECTROPHOTOMETER;

EID: 84899744384     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21567085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/BOE.5.001626     Document Type: Article

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