A new type of flat, ultrathin lens designed to be free of chromatic aberrations has been developed by researchers in the US. The device has a variety of potential applications, from ultralight imaging ...

Ultra-thin flat lenses suitable for photography are one step closer after a team of researchers at Harvard University made a major leap forward with its prototype wafer-thin flat lens. The new lens ...

AR and VR headsets of the future could have clearer, lighter, and wafer thin lenses, thanks to a new manufacturing process that uses nanotechnology to not only shrink the thickness of the lens, but ...

The endeavor to detect life on exoplanets is presently constrained by the limitations and logistical complexities inherent in building larger, more sensitive mirror-based space telescopes. A novel ...

Researchers in Israel have made a new type of contact lens that can correct a form of red–green colour blindness known as deuteranomaly. By incorporating plasmonic metasurfaces into standard contact ...