Manufacturing Ultra-Thin Camera Lenses

In the future, camera lenses could be thousands of times thinner and significantly less resource-intensive to manufacture using new technology for making the artificial materials known as metasurfaces. These materials consist of a multitude of interacting nanoparticles that together can control light. Meta-surfaces can be used for optical components in portable electronics, sensors, cameras, or space satellites. The new technology for making such planar surfaces is based on a plastic that is already used today to create other microstructures.