Due to the development of microscale fabrication methods, microlenses are being used more and more in many unique applications, such as artificial implementations of compound eyes, optical communications, and labs-on-chips. Liquid microlenses, in particular, represent an important and growing research area yet there are no books devoted to this topic that summarize the research to date. Rectifying this deficiency, Microlenses: Properties, Fabrication and Liquid Lenses examines the recent progress in the emerging field of liquid-based microlenses.

After...

Optical MEMS, or MOEMS, are MEMS (micro-electromechanical systems) merged with micro-optics. They allow sensing or manipulating optical signals on a very small size scale, using integrated mechanical, optical, and electrical systems, and encompass a wide variety of devices including optical switch, optical cross-connect, tunable VCSEL, and microbolometers, among others. They give the potential of new kinds of sensors and actuators in microsystems and hold great promise specifically in biomedical applications. This book describes the current state of Optical MEMS in chemical and biomedical...