An unexpected discovery in a Harvard lab has led to a breakthrough insight into choosing an unconventional material, silica, ...

A team of researchers at Penn State have devised a new, streamlined approach to designing metasurfaces, a class of engineered ...

Researchers found silica can outperform high-index materials for optical metasurfaces. Its chip-making compatibility enables ...

Currently, Kyocera's technology enables aerial images whose focal positions vary by color. In the future, increasing the ...

Metasurfaces are two-dimensional (2D), nanoengineered surfaces that interact strongly with electromagnetic waves and can control light with remarkable precision. These ultra-thin layers can be used to ...

A research team has developed a small optical lens, only a few millimeters in size, whose refractive behavior changes in the presence of gas. This 'intelligent' behavior of the micro-lens is enabled ...

Historically, metasurface research has concentrated on the full manipulation of light's characteristics, resulting in a diverse array of optical devices such as metalenses, metaholograms, and beam ...

Penn State researchers use large language models to streamline metasurface design, significantly reducing the time and ...

Using 3D printing and porous silicon, researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have developed compact, visible wavelength achromats that are essential for miniaturized and ...