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SUBMITTER: Duocastella M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4635425 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Duocastella Martí M Florian Camilo C Serra Pere P Diaspro Alberto A
Scientific reports 20151106
When a drop of liquid falls onto a screen, e.g. a cell phone, the pixels lying underneath appear magnified. This lensing effect is a combination of the curvature and refractive index of the liquid droplet. Here, the spontaneous formation of such lenses is exploited to overcome the diffraction limit of a conventional laser direct-writing system. In particular, micro-droplets are first laser-printed at user-defined locations on a surface and they are later used as lenses to focus the same laser be ...[more]