Metalenz gains $10M investment as it starts commercial development
05 Feb 2021
Harvard spinout, founded by Federico Capasso, aims to bring flat optics to consumer electronics and more.
Harvardâs Office of Technology Development, which cultivates the universityâs industrial research collaborations and oversees technology commercialization, has granted Boston-based Metalenz an exclusive, worldwide license to a portfolio of innovations in flat optics developed in the Harvard lab of Federico Capasso
$10 million investment
Metalenz made public its plans on February 4th as it announced $10 million in investment from a combination of Intel Capital, 3M Ventures, Applied Ventures, and TDK Ventures, and others. The funding and semiconductor manufacturing expertise will enable the further engineering of metalenses toward large-scale fabrication for consumer, healthcare, and automotive applications, using the established technology of semiconductor chip manufacturing
Mass. startup Metalenz, Inc., to bring flat optics to consumer electronics and more
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–A startup company founded by applied physicists at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) intends to transform consumer electronics by introducing a powerful technology for imaging and illumination that could replace conventional lenses with an ultrathin, flat optical microchip.
Harvard’s Office of Technology Development (OTD), which cultivates the University’s industrial research collaborations and oversees technology commercialization, has granted Boston-based Metalenz, Inc. an exclusive, worldwide license to a portfolio of innovations in flat optics developed in the Harvard lab of Federico Capasso. Metalenz made its plans public today and announced $10 million in investment from Intel Capital, 3M Ventures, Applied Ventures, and TDK Ventures, among others. The funding and semiconductor manufacturing expertise will enab
2 months ago
Mass. startup Metalenz, Inc., to bring flat optics to consumer electronics and more
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–A startup company founded by applied physicists at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) intends to transform consumer electronics by introducing a powerful technology for imaging and illumination that could replace conventional lenses with an ultrathin, flat optical microchip.
Harvard’s Office of Technology Development (OTD), which cultivates the University’s industrial research collaborations and oversees technology commercialization, has granted Boston-based Metalenz, Inc. an exclusive, worldwide license to a portfolio of innovations in flat optics developed in the Harvard lab of Federico Capasso. Metalenz made its plans public today and announced $10 million in investment from Intel Capital, 3M Ventures, Applied Ventures, and TDK Ventures, among others. The funding and s
Harvard SEAS develops millimeter-scale flat metalenses
28 Jan 2021
Capasso group forms 2mm achromatic metalenses that focuses RGB with mini display for AR, VR applications.
In 2018, the Capassoâs team developed achromatic, aberration-free metalenses that work across the entire visible spectrum of light. But these lenses were only tens of microns in diameter, too small for practical use in virtual and augmented reality systems.
Now, the researchers have developed a two-millimeter achromatic metalenses that can focus RGB wavelengths without aberrations and developed a miniaturized display for virtual and augmented reality applications. The research is published in Science Advances.
âThis state-of-the-art lens opens a path to a new type of virtual reality platform and overcomes the bottleneck that has slowed the progress of new optical device,â said Capasso, who is the Robert L. Wallace Professor of Applied Physics and Vinton Hayes Senior Research Fellow in Electri
A metalens for virtual and augmented reality
Researchers develop a millimeter-size flat lens for VR and AR platforms
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The augment reality imaging result using the full-color near-eye fiber scanning display, which shows an RGB-color virtual image floating in a real-world scene. (Photo credit: Zhaoyi Li/Harvard University.)Download Image
Despite all the advances in consumer technology over the past decades, one component has remained frustratingly stagnant: the optical lens. Unlike electronic devices, which have gotten smaller and more efficient over the years, the design and underlying physics of today’s optical lenses haven’t changed much in about 3,000 years.