The many uses of steering light are part of the reason that nasa recently decided to award weitz and colleagues a grant for this research 光导技术的广泛应用前景是nasa最近决定资助韦茨和他的同事们的研究的一个原因。
A technique invented by weitz and his colleagues produces equal - sized droplets of liquid crystal , each about a dozen microns across ( a micron is one thousandth of a millimeter ) 韦茨和他的同事们发明了一种产生相同尺寸液晶微滴的技术,每一滴大约12微米(一微米等于千分之一毫米) 。