Electrowetting element, lens system, electronic device and driving method
AssigneeKoninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.
InventorsStein Kuiper, Bernardus Hendrikus Wilhelmus Hendriks, Christina Adriana Renders
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Abstract
The electrowetting optical element comprises a first electrically conducting fluid and a second electrically insulating fluid. According to the invention the second fluid comprises a compound including an aliphatic ring-structure. The optical element may be a lens or a zoomlens or be part of a zoomlens system.
Claims13
An optical electrowetting element comprising a fluid chamber with a first, electrically susceptible fluid and a second, electrically less susceptible fluid, which fluids are mutually at least substantially immiscible and separated over a meniscus,
- characterized in that the second fluid comprises a compound that includes an aliphatic ring-shaped structure.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.