MetaOptics, a Singapore-based semiconductor optics company, wants to change this. Its team is developing metalenses — flat, glass-based lenses built and fabricated using the same technology and manufacturing process as semiconductor chips.
Mobile phones get thinner, sleeker and lighter every few years. Yet no matter how slim the design, one feature stubbornly remains, seemingly impossible for manufacturers to smooth away: the awkward camera bump.
These protruding lenses are a physical reminder of the limits of existing injection moulded polymer optical engineering.
