Abstract

We present tunable compound eyes made of ionic liquid lenses, of which both curvatures (R1 and R2 in the lensmaker’s equation) can be individually changed using electrowetting on dielectric (EWOD) and applied pressure. Flexible graphene is used as a transparent electrode and is integrated on a flexible polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS)/parylene hybrid substrate. Graphene electrodes allow a large lens aperture diameter of between 2.4 mm and 2.74 mm. Spherical aberration analysis is performed using COMSOL to investigate the optical property of the lens under applied voltage and pressure. The final lens system shows a resolution of 645.1 line pair per millimeter. A prototype of a tunable lens array is proposed for the application of a compound eye.

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