Unique concave microlens arrays (MLAs) made of calcite single crystals with tunable crystal orientations can be readily fabricated by template-assisted epitaxial growth in solution without additives under ambient conditions. While the non-birefringent calcite (001) MLA showed excellent imaging performance like brittlestar's microlens arrays, the birefringent calcite (104) MLA exhibited remarkable polarization-dependent optical properties.
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