Harvard University

Boréas Technologies

Boréas Technologies is a fabless Canadian semiconductor company supplying low-power drivers for piezoelectric actuation and sensing. Haptics are the primary commercial use-case to date, with micro-pumps for applications including mobile device cooling expected to be important in the near-future.

Metalenses: The New Key to Computer Vision?

Refractive lenses are one of humanity's oldest and most ubiquitous technologies. They have developed to dizzying levels of sophistication in the last few hundred years, with today's tiny, high-quality lens assemblies found in smartphones often costing less than a dollar to produce.

Metalenses: Market Entry, Roadmap, and Players

Innovation map for metalenses: market Entry, roadmap, and players.

Moxtek: Metasurface Foundry

Moxtek is a Utah-based developer and manufacturer of X-ray and optical components. IDTechEx spoke to the Nippon Kayaku Group company about its custom metalens foundry business, which is based around nanoimprint lithography.

QuEra

Tess Skyrme, Senior Technology Analyst at IDTechEx, interviewed the CMO of QuEra, Yuval Boger, about the company's neutral atom approach to quantum computing.

2Pi Optics

2Pi Optics is a recent MIT spinout developing metamaterial lenses. IDTechEx met the company at CES 2024, where it was showing off its single element metasurface fisheye lens.

Quino Energy

Quino Energy is a US-based company developing organic redox flow batteries (ORFB).

Green Energy Storage (GES)

Green Energy Storage (GES) is an Italian-based company, developing organic redox flow batteries.

iRhythm

iRhythm are the leaders in skin patches for extended Holter monitoring and mobile cardiac telemetry.

Kebotix

Kebotix combines an artificial intelligence core with robotic synthesis and characterization in a self-driving laboratory that aims for the discovery of new chemicals and materials. It is focusing on developing its own licensable materials IP. IDTechEx spoke to Cristoph Kreisbeck, Chief Product Officer at Kebotix.

Black Hole Spews Out Material Years After Shredding Star

In October 2018, a small star was ripped to shreds when it wandered too close to a black hole in a galaxy located 665 million light years away from Earth. Though it may sound thrilling, the event did not come as a surprise to astronomers who occasionally witness these violent incidents while scanning the night sky. But nearly three years after the massacre, the same black hole is lighting up the skies again — and it hasn't swallowed anything new, scientists say.

Robotic Capsule Could Administer Insulin

One reason that it's so difficult to deliver large protein drugs orally is that these drugs can't pass through the mucus barrier that lines the digestive tract. This means that insulin and most other drugs consisting of proteins or nucleic acids have to be injected or administered in a hospital. A new drug capsule may one day be able to replace those injections. The capsule has a robotic cap that spins and tunnels through the mucus barrier when it reaches the small intestine, allowing drugs carried by the capsule to pass into cells lining the intestine.

Metalenz

Metalenz is a market leader in the metamaterial lens (metalens) market and provides flat lenses for depth sensing and facial recognition systems. IDTechEx spoke with Metalenz CEO Rob Devlin on 6th September, 2022.