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Title: Optofluidic tunable lenses for in-plane light manipulation
Authors: Chen, Q 
Li, T 
Li, Z
Long, J
Zhang, X 
Issue Date: 2018
Source: Micromachines, Mar. 2018, v. 9, no. 3, 97, p. 1-16
Abstract: Optofluidics incorporates optics and microfluidics together to construct novel devices for microsystems, providing flexible reconfigurability and high compatibility. Among many novel devices, a prominent one is the in-plane optofluidic lens. It manipulates the light in the plane of the substrate, upon which the liquid sample is held. Benefiting from the compatibility, the in-plane optofluidic lenses can be incorporated into a single chip without complicated manual alignment and promises high integration density. In term of the tunability, the in-plane liquid lenses can be either tuned by adjusting the fluidic interface using numerous microfluidic techniques, or by modulating the refractive index of the liquid using temperature, electric field and concentration. In this paper, the in-plane liquid lenses will be reviewed in the aspects of operation mechanisms and recent development. In addition, their applications in lab-on-a-chip systems are also discussed.
Keywords: In-plane liquid lens
Lab-on-a-chip
Microfluidics
Optofluidics
Publisher: Molecular Diversity Preservation International (MDPI)
Journal: Micromachines 
ISSN: 2072-666X
EISSN: 2072-666X
DOI: 10.3390/mi9030097
Rights: © 2018 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
The following publication Chen, Q.; Li, T.; Li, Z.; Long, J.; Zhang, X. Optofluidic Tunable Lenses for In-Plane Light Manipulation. Micromachines 2018, 9, 97,1-16 is available at https://dx.doi.org/10.3390/mi9030097
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