Rice ‘metalens’, which are formed by etching tiny triangles on the surface of a microscopic film of zinc oxide, can disrupt the vacuum UV market

Jade Boyd at Rice University News and Media Relations reports Rice University photonics researchers have created a potentially disruptive technology for the ultraviolet optics market.By precisely etching hundreds of tiny triangles on the surface of a microscopic film of zinc oxide, nanophotonics pioneer Naomi Halas and colleagues created a “metalens” that transforms incoming long-wave UV…