Environmentally responsive optical microstructured hybrid actuator assemblies and applications thereof
US9229218B2 · kind B2 · utility
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| Filing date | Nov 29, 2011 |
| Grant date | Jan 5, 2016 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Feb 8, 2032 |
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- Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
- CPC primaryY10T156/109
- WIPO fieldOptics
- WIPO sectorInstruments
Abstract
Microstructured hybrid actuator assemblies in which microactuators carrying designed surface properties to be revealed upon actuation are embedded in a layer of responsive materials. The microactuators in a microactuator array reversibly change their configuration in response to a change in the environment without requiring an external power source to switch their optical properties.
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