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Neat News 156 (added 2016-06-04)

New Planar Lens

Traditional lenses are curved which leads to limitations in their size. In a new development lenses have been built which are planar and work via computer-computed tiny paint particles on the surface of glas.

News seen at: BBC - Science

Further Info

Image of a Fresnel lens taken from Wikipedia
Link to the scientific article in "Science"

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