Ultrasmall microlens array based on vertically aligned carbon nanofibers

Qing Dai; Ranjith Rajasekharan; Haider Butt; Xiaohui Qiu; Gehan Amaragtunga; Timothy D. Wilkinson; Haider Butt

doi:10.1002/smll.201200397

Ultrasmall microlens array based on vertically aligned carbon nanofibers

Qing Dai^*, Ranjith Rajasekharan, Haider Butt, Xiaohui Qiu, Gehan Amaragtunga, Timothy D. Wilkinson, Haider Butt

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Abstract

An ultrasmall tunable microlens with a diameter of 1.5 μm is fabricated using nematic liquid crystals (electrically tunable medium) and vertically aligned carbon nanofibers (CNFs, electrodes). Individual CNFs are grown at the center of circular dielectric regions. This allows the CNFs to produce a more Gaussian electric field profile and hence more uniformity in lens array switching.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	2501-2504
Number of pages	4
Journal	Small
Volume	8
Issue number	16
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1002/smll.201200397
Publication status	Published - 20 Aug 2012

Keywords

arrays
liquid crystals
microlenses
nano-optics
nanofibers

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Biomaterials
Engineering (miscellaneous)
Biotechnology

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