Researchers have developed a highly sensitive method for detecting hotspots in the environment, such as bushfires or military ...

A completely flat, ultrathin lens can focus different wavelengths of light at the same point, achieving instant color correction in one extremely thin, miniaturized device. Most lenses are, by ...

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 ...

Contact lenses get pretty thin nowadays, but they’ve got nothing on a new lens from scientists at Stanford and the University of Amsterdam. The team has created the world’s thinnest lens, measuring ...

A new generation of optical lenses is being developed and tested at multiple universities and companies worldwide. These lenses, known as metalenses, are silicon films a thousand times thinner than a ...

Scientists have developed the thinnest lens ever made, measuring just three atoms thick, thanks to quantum phenomena. This innovative lens allows most wavelengths of light to pass through, making it ...

A new nanostructured material makes it possible to replace bulky lenses and other optical devices with a thin sheet of material such as silicon. The advance, described in the journal Science, could ...

Researchers have created the first ultrathin, flat lens able to focus light just as well as its curved counterparts, potentially enabling big breakthroughs in camera and microscope technology. "These ...

In the future, camera lenses could be thousands of times thinner and significantly less resource-intensive to manufacture. Researchers from Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, now present a new ...