• 文献标题:   Toward individually tunable compound eyes with transparent graphene electrode
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   SHAHINI A, JIN H, ZHOU ZX, ZHAO Y, CHEN PY, HUA J, CHENG MMC
  • 作者关键词:   liquid len, compound eye, ewod, graphene
  • 出版物名称:   BIOINSPIRATION BIOMIMETICS
  • ISSN:   1748-3182 EI 1748-3190
  • 通讯作者地址:   Wayne State Univ
  • 被引频次:   8
  • DOI:   10.1088/1748-3190/aa7084
  • 出版年:   2017

▎ 摘  要

We present tunable compound eyes made of ionic liquid lenses, of which both curvatures (R1 and R2 in the lensmaker's equation) can be individually changed using electrowetting on dielectric (EWOD) and applied pressure. Flexible graphene is used as a transparent electrode and is integrated on a flexible polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS)/parylene hybrid substrate. Graphene electrodes allow a large lens aperture diameter of between 2.4 mm and 2.74 mm. Spherical aberration analysis is performed using COMSOL to investigate the optical property of the lens under applied voltage and pressure. The final lens system shows a resolution of 645.1 line pair per millimeter. A prototype of a tunable lens array is proposed for the application of a compound eye.