Specifications

robots - Serial mechanism - Stable structures
Classification code: 601.3 Mechanisms - 716 Telecommunication; Radar, Radio and
Television - 731.5 Robotics
DOI: 10.1109/ROMAN.2000.892642
Database: Compendex
Compilation and indexing terms, © 2013 Elsevier Inc.
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Accession number: 20133316607282
Title: Bioinspired uniform illumination by vibrated sessile droplet pinned by a
hydrophilic/superhydrophobic heterogeneous surface
Authors: Zhu, Shuya1 ; Jiang, Weitao1 ; Liu, Hongzhong1 ; Yin, Lei1 ; Shi, Yongsheng1 ; Chen,
Bangdao1 ; Ding, Yucheng1 ; An, Ningli2/;;;;;;;;
Author affiliation:
1 State Key Laboratory for Manufacturing Systems Engineering, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an
710049, China
2 Department of Packaging Engineering, Xi'an University of Technology, Xi'an 710048, China
Corresponding author: Liu, H. ([e-mail])
Source title: Optics Letters
Abbreviated source title: Opt. Lett.
Volume: 38
Issue: 15
Issue date: August 1, 2013
Publication year: 2013
Pages: 2720-2722
Language: English
ISSN: 01469592
E-ISSN: 15394794
CODEN: OPLEDP
Document type: Journal article (JA)
Publisher: Optical Society of America, 2010 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
20036-1023, United States
Abstract: We introduce a strategy to generate uniform illumination. The droplet pinned by a
hydrophilic/superhydrophobic heterogeneous surface is oscillated, driven by a laterally placed
loudspeaker. The vibrated droplet can be considered as a tunable lens, whose focus and focus
length can be real-time tuned. The tunable "lens" is presented as a device for uniform
illumination by mechanical manipulation. The incident light is scattered by the vibrated droplet
during oscillation, and the irradiance distribution on the image plane becomes larger and more
homogenous when the droplet is at resonance. © 2013 Optical Society of America.
Number of references: 13
Main heading: Drops
Controlled terms: Incident solar radiation - Inertial confinement fusion
Uncontrolled terms: At resonance - Heterogeneous surface - Incident
light - Irradiance distribution - Mechanical manipulation - Sessile droplet - Tunable
lens - Uniform illumination