Although manufacturers are constantly trying to make smartphones thinner and lighter, they're limited by the phones' curved glass camera lenses. Now, however, researchers have developed a flat lens ...

The ARC Centre of Excellence for Transformative Meta-Optical Systems (TMOS) in Australia has made an extraordinary breakthrough. The researchers working at TMOS have devised a way to create ultra-thin ...

Infrared light passes through the metal lens and is converted into violet light and focused in a focal point due to the material and the special surface structures—enlarged in the magnifying glass.

In recent years, the world of optics has undergone a major shift. New research shows how light can be bent, focused, and even changed in color using structures so small they’re invisible to the eye.

The final single color lens is developed on a plate and resembles silicon chips before they’re put into larger circuits. Paper-thin optical lenses simple enough to mass produce like microchips could ...

Infrared light passes through the metal lens and is converted into violet light and focussed in a focal point due to the material and the special surface structures – enlarged in the magnifying glass.