{"id":118089,"date":"2021-01-06T04:22:16","date_gmt":"2021-01-06T12:22:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/convex-to-concave-more-metasurface-moire-results-in-wide-range-lens"},"modified":"2021-01-06T04:22:16","modified_gmt":"2021-01-06T12:22:16","slug":"convex-to-concave-more-metasurface-moire-results-in-wide-range-lens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/convex-to-concave-more-metasurface-moire-results-in-wide-range-lens","title":{"rendered":"Convex to concave: More metasurface moir\u00e9 results in wide-range lens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/convex-to-concave-more-metasurface-moire-results-in-wide-range-lens2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The odd, wavy pattern that results from viewing certain phone or computer screens through polarized glasses has led researchers to take a step toward thinner, lighter-weight lenses. Called moir\u00e9, the pattern is made by laying one material with opaque and translucent parts at an angle over another material of similar contrast.<\/p>\n<p>A team of researchers from Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, TUAT, in Japan have demonstrated that moir\u00e9 metalenses\u2014tiny, patterned lenses composed of artificial \u2018meta\u2019 atoms\u2014can tune <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/focal+length\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">focal length<\/a> along a wider range than previously seen. They published their results on November 23 in Optics Express.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMetalenses have attracted a lot of interest because they are so thin and lightweight, and could be used in ultra-compact imaging systems, like future smart phones, virtual reality goggles, drones or microbots,\u201d said paper author Kentaro Iwami, associate professor in the TUAT Department of Mechanical Systems Engineering.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The odd, wavy pattern that results from viewing certain phone or computer screens through polarized glasses has led researchers to take a step toward thinner, lighter-weight lenses. Called moir\u00e9, the pattern is made by laying one material with opaque and translucent parts at an angle over another material of similar contrast. A team of researchers [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1488,38,1512,48,1879],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-drones","category-engineering","category-mobile-phones","category-particle-physics","category-virtual-reality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118089\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}