Flexible Wire Electrode Driving Focus-Tunable Electrowetting Optofluidic Lens

An electrowetting-on-dielectrics (EWOD) liquid lens, based on a flexible wire electrode, is proposed to avoid the defects prone to occur in the large area coating dielectric layer inside the cavity. A liquid lens cavity is formed by winding the flexible conductive wire with a thin dielectric layer (...

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Published in:IEEE photonics technology letters 2022-05, Vol.34 (10), p.537-540
Main Authors: Chen, Tao, Sun, Jing-Yi, Ding, Tian-Xin, Zheng, Pei-Tao, Chen, Qi-Rui, Chen, Yue, Liang, Zhong-Cheng
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Dielectrics
Electrodes
Electrowetting-on-dielectrics (EWOD)
flexible wire electrode
Lenses
Light transmission
liquid lenses
Liquids
optofluidics
Voltage
Windings
Wire
Wires
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Summary:An electrowetting-on-dielectrics (EWOD) liquid lens, based on a flexible wire electrode, is proposed to avoid the defects prone to occur in the large area coating dielectric layer inside the cavity. A liquid lens cavity is formed by winding the flexible conductive wire with a thin dielectric layer (named EWOD wire) along the direction of light transmission in a circular wall uniformly. A tubular double-liquid electrowetting lens with a clear aperture of 7 mm is fabricated to demonstrate the practicality of this fabrication process. It can reach a focal length variation range of ( -\infty , −30 mm] \cup [69 mm, +\infty ) at a voltage of 0-190 V rms and shows the other performance not inferior to those of liquid lenses fabricated by traditional methods. The EWOD wire can be assembled into any shape, performing the potential to produce other optofluidic components.
ISSN:1041-1135
1941-0174
DOI:10.1109/LPT.2022.3170949