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Flat lens, optics from metamaterials

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11-06-2016 11:27pm

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http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-36438686

A flat lens made of paint whitener on a sliver of glass could revolutionise optics, according to its US inventors.
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The lens is quite unlike the curved disks of glass familiar from cameras and binoculars. Instead, it is made of a thin layer of transparent quartz coated in millions of tiny pillars, each just tens of nanometres across and hundreds high.

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