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PRESS RELEASE – Metalenz Launches Orion, the World’s Simplest, Most Compact Dot Pattern Projector.
May 26, 2021Metalenz Inc., the pioneer in metasurface design and commercialization, today unveiled the Orion™ product family, the world’s simplest, high performance dot projectors.
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These Materials Could Make Science Fiction a Reality
April 27, 2021A host of advances on the horizon could happen because of metamaterials, making it possible to control beams of light with the same ease that computer chips control electricity.
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Smaller and Better Smartphone Cameras Are On the Way
April 16, 2021“Today’s smartphone cameras can make a better image than cameras I paid NZ$10,000 ($7,110; £5,165) for only 20 years ago,” says Tom Ang, an Auckland-based professional photographer and author of more than 30 books on digital photography.
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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. […]
Transforming light via breakthrough flat-lens technology