26 Jun 2024
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.
Innovation Map
2 May 2023
The Metamaterials Landscape
Innovation roadmap for the metamaterials landscape.
15 Dec 2022
Metamaterials' Potential in mmWave 5G Telecommunications and Beyond
Having been largely confined to the realm of academia for many years, metamaterials are now set for commercialization in several major applications.
Update interview: SWOT Analysis
31 Jan 2022
MetaLenz
Full profile interview: SWOT Analysis
6 Jan 2022
TruLife Optics
30 Nov 2021
The Most Significant Advanced Materials News from 2021
With the pandemic still raging, supply chain disruptions, the chip shortage, climate catastrophes, and geopolitical turbulence, it is safe to say 2021 has not been smooth sailing. The materials and chemical sector provides the backbone of every industry and remains under pressure from all these challenges. In this article, IDTechEx highlights the key news from their independent perspective on this crucial industry.
24 Nov 2021
Making the Metaverse: Hardware Hurdles, Discussed by IDTechEx
Are you fed up with Zoom? Do you want online interactions to feel more... interactive? The metaverse promises a step-change in how society communicates but, without the hardware technology, will ultimately remain a pipe dream.
Update interview
15 Oct 2021
Metamaterial Technologies
I spoke to the Chief Marketing Officer of Meta at the October 2021 TechBlick Printed and Flexible Electronics online conference who detailed Meta's acquisiton of Nanotech Security, a firm making devices for banknote security, in early October 2021.