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Graphene Optical Lens a Billionth of a Meter Thick Breaks the Diffraction Limit (gizmag.com)

Posted by timothy on from the just-what-you'd-expect-out-of-swinburne dept.

Zothecula writes: With the development of photonic chips and nano-optics, the old ground glass lenses can't keep up in the race toward miniaturization. In the search for a suitable replacement, a team from the Swinburne University of Technology has developed a graphene microlens one billionth of a meter thick that can take sharper images of objects the size of a single bacterium and opens the door to improved mobile phones, nanosatellites, and computers.

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  1. Breaks the Diffraction Limit... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    they better get some superglue and put it back together before someone finds out.

  2. Graphene by rmdingler · · Score: 5, Funny
    FTA: "Once the technology is mature, the team sees it as having applications beyond microscopy, such as in lighter, thinner mobile phones with thermal imaging capabilities, smaller endoscopes for surgery, as a replacement for conventional lenses in nanosatellites to save a couple of hundred grams..."

    This material seems to be the latest addition to Randall Munroe's long list of engineering problems that can be waved away by tacking on the prefix "nano-."

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  3. Camera Pills getting small by justcauseisjustthat · · Score: 4, Funny

    This would be huge for camera pills and colonoscopy cameras, imagine swallowing 3-6 camera pills (no bigger that a standard capsule pill) of these and they stream back a continue set of pictures as they travel from the mouth until they pass through the butt. This would be the shit!!!