TY - GEN
T1 - Microfluidically tunable lenticular lens
AU - Iimura, Y.
AU - Teshima, T.
AU - Heo, Y. J.
AU - Morimoto, Y.
AU - Yoshida, S.
AU - Onoe, H.
AU - Takeuchi, S.
N1 - Copyright:
Copyright 2014 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - This paper describes a tunable lenticular lens to switch high-resolution two-dimensional (2D) / three-dimensional (3D) images in naked-eye stereoscopic displays. This lens is simply composed of transparent poly(dimethylsiloxane) (PDMS) microchannels and pumps to realizes two states: (A) flat surface for light transmissions without deflection; (B) cylindrically deformed surface for light deflection. This lens has three advantages: (i) switchable optical characteristics without patterned electrode, (ii) adjustable focal length by the pressure-driven deformation, (iii) simple fabrication and low-cost experimental setup. By using this device put on a Smart Phone display, we successfully observed 3D images and two different images depending on view angle. Moreover, we obtained clear 2D images without decrease in the horizontal resolution. We believe that this device can be applied to a portable and high luminance naked-eye stereoscopic display by the combination with various types of commercially available portable displays.
AB - This paper describes a tunable lenticular lens to switch high-resolution two-dimensional (2D) / three-dimensional (3D) images in naked-eye stereoscopic displays. This lens is simply composed of transparent poly(dimethylsiloxane) (PDMS) microchannels and pumps to realizes two states: (A) flat surface for light transmissions without deflection; (B) cylindrically deformed surface for light deflection. This lens has three advantages: (i) switchable optical characteristics without patterned electrode, (ii) adjustable focal length by the pressure-driven deformation, (iii) simple fabrication and low-cost experimental setup. By using this device put on a Smart Phone display, we successfully observed 3D images and two different images depending on view angle. Moreover, we obtained clear 2D images without decrease in the horizontal resolution. We believe that this device can be applied to a portable and high luminance naked-eye stereoscopic display by the combination with various types of commercially available portable displays.
KW - 2D/3D switching
KW - Lenticular lens
KW - Microfluidic channels
KW - Naked-eye stereoscopic display
KW - Poly(dimethylsiloxane)
KW - Varifocal lens
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U2 - 10.1109/Transducers.2013.6627135
DO - 10.1109/Transducers.2013.6627135
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84891685954
SN - 9781467359818
T3 - 2013 Transducers and Eurosensors XXVII: The 17th International Conference on Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems, TRANSDUCERS and EUROSENSORS 2013
SP - 1787
EP - 1790
BT - 2013 Transducers and Eurosensors XXVII
T2 - 2013 17th International Conference on Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems, TRANSDUCERS and EUROSENSORS 2013
Y2 - 16 June 2013 through 20 June 2013
ER -