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MIT engineers claim to have designed 'completely flat' fisheye lens

07:21 PM Sep 20, 2020 | Team Udayavani |

MIT engineers claim to have designed a fisheye lens that is “completely flat”.

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According to TechCrunch, The engineers were able to make it work by patterning a thin wafer of glass on one side with microscopic, three-dimensional structures that are positioned very precisely in order to scatter any inbound light in precisely the same way that a curved piece of glass would

The design is a type of “metalens”, a wafer-thin material patterned with microscopic features that work together to manipulate light in a specific way. Researchers claim it’s the first flat fisheye lens to produce “crisp, 180° panoramic images”.

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