Oct 12 2006
Varioptic S.A and The Dow Chemical Company announced today that they will combine their strength and expertise to bring new developments in the field of electrowetting technology for Liquid Lenses.
The results of this partnership will significantly improve optical, chemical and physical performance of Varioptic’s liquid lenses, broadening the range of applications for liquid lens products.
“Varioptic has considerable background experience in the development of proprietary materials for liquid lens applications and significant progress has been made recently to design reliable liquid formulations for mobile phone camera modules,” says Paul Morris, director, Dow Venture Capital “As Varioptic moves forward from AutoFocus applications to other applications (such as microzoom) the requirements are even more challenging. We consider TDCC’s capability in high throughput screening to be a powerful tool in helping optimize electrowetting performance for such requirements. We believe that Varioptic’s technology can become a major component of the evolution of mobile phones and we are happy to start this cooperation.”
“The market for optical solutions in mobile phones and PDAs is poised for exponential growth, and the partnership we’ve announced today will help accelerate the development and delivery of numerous applications,” says Jean-Christophe Robert, CTO of Varioptic “Combining our companies’ expertise will open up new opportunities in a wide range of applications that can benefit from such optical solutions and we are looking forward to working with TDCC to capitalize on this enormous market opportunity.”