Flat Metalens Outperforms the Human Eye

Mar-01-18 An innovative new flat artificial eye could have breakthrough applications in cameras, glasses and virtual reality.

Created by a team at Harvard, the prototype metalens consists of a flat silicon nanostructure attached to an artificial muscle made of a dielectric elastomer that can be controlled by electricity. Light can pass through the polymer without loss due to scattering, and the shape of the lens can be altered by an electric signal to simultaneously adjust for image focus, image shift and astigmatism, as well as focus in real time like the human eye.

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