March 2010 featured liquid crystal picture
Tim Wilkinson)

The picture is a microlens array under crossed polarizers. The array is designed for a 3 colour LC laser and has a 50µm lenslet pitch. The dark area is an aluminium electrode and the apertures are the lenslets 20µm thick BLO48 nematic LC.

Read more about the artist, Tim Wilkinson.

Jury comment: this picture has been chosen because it shows directly an exciting application of liquid crystals

More pictures can be found in the gallery of liquid crystal pictures of the month.
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