Search results for liquid lens:
Controlling light with sound: new liquid camera lens as simple as water and vibration
Sep 22, 2008 |
4.6 / 5 (41) |
3
New miniature image-capturing technology powered by water, sound, and surface tension could lead to smarter and lighter cameras in everything from cell phones and automobiles to autonomous robots and miniature ...
Liquid lens creates tiny flexible laser on a chip
May 11, 2009 |
2.3 / 5 (3) |
1
(PhysOrg.com) -- Like tiny Jedi knights, tunable fluidic micro lenses can focus and direct light at will to count cells, evaluate molecules or create on-chip optical tweezers, according to a team of Penn State engineers. ...
Tunable microlenses shine light on medical imaging
Oct 13, 2008 |
4.7 / 5 (9) |
0
(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Wisconsin-Madison engineers have developed tunable liquid microlenses that can quickly scan images and record video. Integrated onto fiber-optic probes, the lenses further could reduce the invasiveness ...
New Japanese glasses bring tears to the eyes
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Oct 27, 2009 |
3.4 / 5 (8) |
0
The Japanese eyewear company behind Sarah Palin's designer glasses has come up with a high-tech solution for obsessive video-gamers and bookworms whose eyes dry out from lack of blinking.
UCF, Holochip in Licensing Agreement for Zoom Lens Patents
Jul 20, 2007 |
4 / 5 (5) |
0
The University of Central Florida has signed a licensing agreement with Holochip Corp. for a portfolio of technologies that will allow zoom lenses, such as those used in digital cameras and camera phones, ...
The Future Is 3-D Liquid Crystals
Jan 15, 2009 |
4.4 / 5 (15) |
6
(PhysOrg.com) -- Dr. Tim Wilkinson from the Department's Photonics Research Group, University of Cambridge, has made an exciting breakthrough, he has combined liquid crystals with vertically grown carbon nanotubes ...
Soldered lenses
May 13, 2008 |
4.3 / 5 (12) |
1
Lenses in optical devices are kept in place by adhesives. This can cause problems when the microscopes and cameras are employed inside a vacuum, as the adhesives may release gases that contaminate the lenses. ...
Epson's new 4K panel for 3LCD projectors
Nov 10, 2009 |
4.8 / 5 (8) |
1
(PhysOrg.com) -- Seiko Epson Corporation has announced the world's first 4K panel for 3LCD (liquid crystal display) projectors. The panel will enable the projectors to produce a bright image of 4096 x 2160 ...
Butterfly proboscis to sip cells
Nov 22, 2009 |
not rated yet |
0
A butterfly's proboscis looks like a straw -- long, slender, and used for sipping -- but it works more like a paper towel, according to Konstantin Kornev of Clemson University. He hopes to borrow the tricks of this piece ...
Samsung Develops World’s Slimmest Mobile LCD Screen
Nov 21, 2006 |
3.3 / 5 (30) |
0
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., the world’s largest provider of thin-film transistor, liquid crystal display (TFT-LCD) panels announced today that it has developed the thinnest reported LCD panel, one no thicker ...
New 'Liquid Lens' Data for Immersion Lithography
Physics /
Mar 17, 2006 |
3.7 / 5 (6) |
0
New data on the properties of potential "liquid lenses" compiled by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) could help the semiconductor industry continue to shrink feature sizes on computer chips.
Epson Develops New High-Resolution 3D LCD Display
Aug 11, 2008 |
4.3 / 5 (30) |
4
(PhysOrg.com) -- Seiko Epson Corporation has developed a high-resolution (equivalent to QVGA) autostereoscopic 3D liquid-crystal display that affords extra freedom of viewing position compared to conventional ...
Autonomous lenses may bring microworld into focus
Aug 02, 2006 |
4.4 / 5 (21) |
0
When Hongrui Jiang looked into a fly's eye, he saw a way to make a tiny lens so "smart" that it can adapt its focal length from minus infinity to plus infinity-without external control.
WISE Is Chilling Out
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Nov 11, 2009 |
4.7 / 5 (3) |
0
(PhysOrg.com) -- Engineers are busy cooling the science instrument on NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE. The spacecraft is scheduled to blast into space from Vandenberg Air Force Base in ...
Scientists Develop Switchable Focus Eyeglass Lenses
Physics /
Apr 04, 2006 |
4.8 / 5 (39) |
0
Optical scientists have developed eyeglass lenses that switch focus in a blink of an eye. Optical scientists at The University of Arizona have developed new switchable, flat, liquid crystal diffractive lenses ...
