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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. Re:Camera Pills getting small by justcauseisjustthat · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Totally agree, although I was being comical, I was also serious. As an individual who is required to have a colonoscopy every 2 yrs, this would be nice alternative. Also the smaller size would translate to less chance of the pills getting stuck in the small or large intestine, hopefully.