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Haptische Intelligenz Article 2016

An electro-active polymer based lens module for dynamically varying focal system

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Haptische Intelligenz
Saekwang Nam
  • Doctoral Researcher

We demonstrate a polymer-based active-lens module allowing a dynamic focus controllable optical system with a wide tunable range. The active-lens module is composed of parallelized two active- lenses with a convex and a concave shaped hemispherical lens structure, respectively. Under opera- tion with dynamic input voltage signals, each active-lens produces translational movement bi-directionally responding to a hybrid driving force that is a combination of an electro-active response of a thin dielectric elastomer membrane and an electro-static attraction force. Since the proposed active lens module widely modulates a gap-distance between lens-elements, an optical system based on the active-lens module provides widely-variable focusing for selective imaging of objects in arbitrary position.

Author(s): Sungryul Yun and Suntak Park and Saekwang Nam and Bongje Park and Seung Koo Park and Seongcheol Mun and Jeong Mook Lim and Ki-Uk Kyung
Journal: Applied Physics Letters
Volume: 109
Number (issue): 14
Pages: 141908
Year: 2016
Month: October
Day: 7
Bibtex Type: Article (article)
DOI: 10.1063/1.4964426
State: Published
URL: https://aip.scitation.org/doi/full/10.1063/1.4964426
Digital: True
Electronic Archiving: grant_archive
Eprint: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4964426

BibTex 

@article{Yun16-APL-EAPlens,
  title = {An electro-active polymer based lens module for dynamically varying focal system},
  journal = {Applied Physics Letters},
  abstract = {We demonstrate a polymer-based active-lens module allowing a dynamic focus controllable optical system with a wide tunable range. The active-lens module is composed of parallelized two active- lenses with a convex and a concave shaped hemispherical lens structure, respectively. Under opera- tion with dynamic input voltage signals, each active-lens produces translational movement bi-directionally responding to a hybrid driving force that is a combination of an electro-active response of a thin dielectric elastomer membrane and an electro-static attraction force. Since the proposed active lens module widely modulates a gap-distance between lens-elements, an optical system based on the active-lens module provides widely-variable focusing for selective imaging of objects in arbitrary position.},
  volume = {109},
  number = {14},
  pages = {141908},
  month = oct,
  year = {2016},
  slug = {yun-16-apl-electro},
  author = {Yun, Sungryul and Park, Suntak and Nam, Saekwang and Park, Bongje and Park, Seung Koo and Mun, Seongcheol and Lim, Jeong Mook and Kyung, Ki-Uk},
  eprint = {https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4964426},
  url = {https://aip.scitation.org/doi/full/10.1063/1.4964426},
  month_numeric = {10}
}