{"id":177925,"date":"2023-12-09T17:23:31","date_gmt":"2023-12-09T23:23:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/a-new-micro-lens-on-optics-researchers-develop-hybrid-achromats-with-high-focusing-efficiencies"},"modified":"2023-12-09T17:23:31","modified_gmt":"2023-12-09T23:23:31","slug":"a-new-micro-lens-on-optics-researchers-develop-hybrid-achromats-with-high-focusing-efficiencies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/a-new-micro-lens-on-optics-researchers-develop-hybrid-achromats-with-high-focusing-efficiencies","title":{"rendered":"A new (micro) lens on optics: Researchers develop hybrid achromats with high focusing efficiencies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-new-micro-lens-on-optics-researchers-develop-hybrid-achromats-with-high-focusing-efficiencies3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>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 lightweight optics. These high-performance hybrid micro-optics achieve high focusing efficiencies, while minimizing volume and thickness. Further, these microlenses can be constructed into arrays to form larger area images for achromatic light-field imagers and displays.<\/p>\n<p>This study was led by <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/materials+science\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">materials science<\/a> and engineering professors Paul Braun and David Cahill, electrical and computer engineering professor Lynford Goddard and former graduate student Corey Richards. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41467-023-38858-y\">results<\/a> of this research were published in Nature Communications.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe developed a way to create structures exhibiting the functionalities of classical compound optics but in highly miniaturized thin from, via non-traditional fabrication approaches,\u201d says Braun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 lightweight optics. These high-performance hybrid micro-optics achieve high focusing efficiencies, while minimizing volume and thickness. Further, these microlenses can be constructed into arrays to form larger area images for achromatic [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1489],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-177925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3d-printing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177925","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177925\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}