{"id":26455,"date":"2016-06-04T05:48:55","date_gmt":"2016-06-04T12:48:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/flat-lens-promises-possible-revolution-in-optics"},"modified":"2017-06-04T19:57:52","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T02:57:52","slug":"flat-lens-promises-possible-revolution-in-optics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/flat-lens-promises-possible-revolution-in-optics","title":{"rendered":"Flat lens promises possible revolution in optics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/flat-lens-promises-possible-revolution-in-optics.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A flat lens made of paint whitener on a sliver of glass could revolutionise optics, according to its US inventors.<\/p>\n<p>Just 2mm across and finer than a human hair, the tiny device can magnify nanoscale objects and gives a sharper focus than top-end microscope lenses.<\/p>\n<p>It is the latest example of the power of metamaterials, whose novel properties emerge from their structure.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/science-environment-36438686\">http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/science-environment-36438686<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A flat lens made of paint whitener on a sliver of glass could revolutionise optics, according to its US inventors. Just 2mm across and finer than a human hair, the tiny device can magnify nanoscale objects and gives a sharper focus than top-end microscope lenses. It is the latest example of the power of metamaterials, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nanotechnology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26455","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26455"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67338,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26455\/revisions\/67338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}