The function and use of micro-lenses mainly include focusing, imaging, and optical function enhancement in specific applications. Micro-lenses are small optical components that can accurately control ...

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 ...

Developments in the manufacture of polymer micro optics are helping optical designers to meet the exacting tolerances that are required for miniaturized optical components and subsystems. Heidi Hall ...

(Nanowerk News) They number in the thousands, light striking the phalanx of lenses arrayed on a face in geometric pattern, the beams refracting through transparent mounds no wider than a hair. A fly’s ...

Display brightness versus battery life is normally a straightforward trade-off: The brighter the screen, the more power it uses, and the lower the battery-life. But a micro lens array (MLA) offers a ...

A team has created minuscule lenses that it can expand or contract in mere seconds -- modifying their magnification, focal length and other optical properties in the process. That on-the-fly ...

Atomic force microscopy, laser ablation, and etching with a witches brew of toxic chemicals: sounds like [Zachary Tong] has been playing in the lab again, and this time he found a way to fabricate ...

ROCHESTER, NEW YORK, Feb. 05, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Syntec Optics, a scientific and technical instruments and aerospace and defense optics provider, celebrated another production milestone by ...

As a structure composed of two-dimensional arrays of microscale lenses, micro-lens array (MLA) has attracted attentions of both the academia and industry, due to its distinctive optical properties and ...

Philips in Europe has today taken the wraps off a large chunk of its upcoming TV range for 2024, incorporating a promising mix of premium OLED and LED options. Sitting at the top of Philips’ 2024 TV ...

Panasonic has revealed its latest OLED TV at CES 2023 — the MZ2000, which features a new panel design built with Micro Lens Array technology. Panasonic says this gives the MZ2000 up to 150% stronger ...

The unique structures of biological vision systems in nature inspired scientists to design ultracompact imaging systems. Researchers have made an ultracompact camera that captures high-contrast and ...