Contact lens materials: a materials science perspective

CSA Musgrave, F Fang - Materials, 2019 - mdpi.com
More is demanded from ophthalmic treatments using contact lenses, which are currently
used by over 125 million people around the world. Improving the material of contact lenses …

Liquid crystal lenses with tunable focal length

YH Lin, YJ Wang, V Reshetnyak - Liquid Crystals Reviews, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Lenses with tunable focal length play important roles in nature by helping species avoid
predators and capture prey. Many practical devices mimic lens concept for imaging, sensing …

Recent advances in adaptive liquid crystal lenses

JF Algorri, DC Zografopoulos, V Urruchi… - Crystals, 2019 - mdpi.com
An adaptive-focus lens is a device that is capable of tuning its focal length by means of an
external stimulus. Numerous techniques for the demonstration of such devices have been …

Ferroelectric nematogens containing a methylthio group

G Stepanafas, E Cruickshank, S Brown… - Materials …, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
The synthesis and characterisation of eight nematogens containing a terminal methylthio
group is reported. The compounds are based on RM734 and differ in the number and …

Electrically tunable polymer stabilized chiral ferroelectric nematic liquid crystal microlenses

K Perera, N Haputhantrige, MSH Himel… - Advanced Optical …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Tunable optical lenses are in great demand in modern technologies ranging from
augmented and virtual reality to sensing and detection. In this work, electrically tunable …

Switchable liquid crystal contact lenses for the correction of presbyopia

J Bailey, PB Morgan, HF Gleeson, JC Jones - Crystals, 2018 - mdpi.com
Presbyopia is an age-related disorder where the lens of the eye hardens so that focusing on
near objects becomes increasingly difficult. This complaint affects everyone over the age of …

Electrically tunable gradient-index lenses via liquid crystals: beyond the power law

YH Lin, WC Cheng, V Reshetnyak, HH Huang… - Optics …, 2023 - opg.optica.org
In this study we present an investigation of electrically tunable progressive lenses utilizing
liquid crystals (LC). We introduce a polarized progressive LC lens capable of dynamically …

Augmented reality with image registration, vision correction and sunlight readability via liquid crystal devices

YJ Wang, PJ Chen, X Liang, YH Lin - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
Augmented reality (AR), which use computer-aided projected information to augment our
sense, has important impact on human life, especially for the elder people. However, there …

Method and apparatus for ophthalmic devices comprising dielectrics and liquid crystal polymer networks

RB Pugh, FA Flitsch, A Toner, JD Riall… - US Patent …, 2016 - Google Patents
The present invention relates to methods and apparatus for providing a variable optic insert
into an ophthalmic lens. The variable optic insert may have surfaces within that have dif …

Method and apparatus for ophthalmic devices including shaped liquid crystal polymer networked regions of liquid crystal

RB Pugh, FA Flitsch, A Toner, JD Riall… - US Patent …, 2016 - Google Patents
The present invention relates to methods and apparatus for providing a variable optic insert
into an ophthalmic lens. The variable optic insert may have surfaces within that have …