Dielectric Liquid Microlens With Switchable Negative and Positive Optical Power

    Authors

    S. Xu; H. W. Ren; Y. F. Liu;S. T. Wu

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    Abbreviated Journal Title

    J. Microelectromech. Syst.

    Keywords

    Adaptive optics; dielectric liquid; polymer; tunable lens; LENS; ARRAY; Engineering, Electrical & Electronic; Engineering, Mechanical

    Abstract

    We propose an adaptive dielectric liquid microlens whose focal length can be tuned from negative to positive or vise versa. The biconcave polymer base in the lens cell not only generates an inhomogeneous electric field, inhibits drifting of the droplet, and reduces the operating voltage but also induces a negative optical power. Pairing with the top subliquid lens, the whole lens exhibits a tunable negative and positive optical power under different driving voltages. To prove this concept, we fabricated such a dielectric liquid microlens and evaluated its performance. The biconcave polymer base can be particularly designed to obtain different dynamic range as desired.

    Journal Title

    Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems

    Volume

    20

    Issue/Number

    1

    Publication Date

    1-1-2011

    Document Type

    Article

    Language

    English

    First Page

    297

    Last Page

    301

    WOS Identifier

    WOS:000286934900036

    ISSN

    1057-7157

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