Electrically Tunable Liquid Crystal Lenses and Applications

Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals

Volumn 596, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 12-21

  Lin, Yi Hsin ^a   Chen, Hung Shan ^a   Chen, Ming Syuan ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

LC lenses; Liquid crystal lenses; tunable focusing properties

Indexed keywords

FOCUSING; LIQUID CRYSTALS; LIQUIDS; OPTICAL INSTRUMENT LENSES; POLARIZATION;

ELECTRICALLY TUNABLE; ENDOSCOPIC SYSTEMS; FOCUSING PROPERTIES; LIQUID CRYSTAL LENS; OPHTHALMIC LENS; OPTICAL ZOOM SYSTEMS; POLARIZATION DEPENDENCY; POLARIZATION INDEPENDENT;

LENSES;

EID: 84943621664     PISSN: 15421406     EISSN: 15635287     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15421406.2014.918243     Document Type: Article

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