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Can Silicon Nanostructures Knock Plastic Lenses Out of Cell Phone Cameras?
February 4, 2021Startup Metalenz says its nanostructures do a better job of guiding light to image sensors than curved plastic lenses.
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A New Lens Technology Is Primed to Jump-Start Phone Cameras
February 4, 2021The optics in your smartphone have been pretty much the same for more than a decade. That’s about to change.
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New Lens Tech Poised to Eliminate the Smartphone “Camera Bump”
February 4, 2021Metalenz has revealed its vision for the future of smartphone lenses, a segment of the market that has not seen much change in the last ten plus years.
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Metalens raises $10m for 3D sensors that are 1,000 times smaller than a hair
February 4, 2021Metalenz has raised $10 million to create 3D sensors on a chip with structures that are 1,000 times smaller than a human hair.
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Cheap Lidar For All? Startup Prints 10,000 Lenses At A Time On Silicon Wafers
February 4, 2021A new startup out of Harvard Labs has invented a way to print camera lenses 10,000 at a time just like computer chips in the same semiconductor foundries that make chips for computers and phones.
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Metalenz Puts $10M Series A Into Focus With Investment From Intel and 3M
February 4, 2021Metalenz, a developer of meta-optic technologies for new lenses, has secured a $10 million Series A as the company looks to exit stealth and have its chips deployed in smartphones and mobile devices later this year.
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Matelenz promises to make your camera bump smaller
February 3, 2021One thing we’ve all noticed as the years go on is how huge camera bumps are nowadays. Although companies are […]
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This startup prints camera lenses like computer chips, 5000 at a time, with full EM spectrum sensing
February 3, 2021A new startup out of Harvard Labs has invented a way to print camera lenses 5,000 at a time just like computer chips, and in the same semiconductor foundries that make our computer’s CPUs.
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World Economic Forum: Top 10 Emerging Technologies 2019
June 1, 2019Tiny Lenses for Miniature Devices Thin, flat metalenses could replace bulky glass for manipulating light As phones, computers and other […]
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LASER 2017: Capasso gives illuminating metasurface plenary
June 28, 2017As SPIE launches new Digital Optical Technologies conference series and hosts AR/VR demonstrations at LASER The new SPIE Digital Optical […]
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Phone Cameras Could Get as Sharp as DSLRs, by Bending Laws of Nature
June 6, 2016A new grain-of-sand-sized lens could one day compete with those enormous DSLR lenses to create sharp pictures. A group of […]
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Flat lens promises possible revolution in optics
June 3, 2016A flat lens made of paint whitener on a sliver of glass could revolutionise optics, according to its US inventors. […]
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Metalenses at visible wavelengths: Diffraction-limited focusing and subwavelength resolution imaging
June 3, 2016Multifunction planar optics Specially designed two-dimensional (2D) arrays of nanometer-scale metallic antennas, or metasurfaces, may allow bulky optical components to […]
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Metalens works in the visible spectrum, sees smaller than a wavelength of light
June 3, 2016High efficiency ultra-thin planar lens could replace heavy, bulky lenses in smart phones, cameras and telescopes Curved lenses, like those […]
Transforming light via breakthrough flat-lens technology