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New Diffuser Can Selectively Control Colours

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Scientists in two German institutes have developed a new optical diffuser that uses silicon nanoparticles that create a metasurface that can redirect specific wavelengths of light. The groups see applications in …

Tags:Germany| Metasurfaces| Optics| R&D (Research & Development)

Links Week Starting 3rd January 2022

by Bob Raikes

Every week we see some articles that don’t really need comment or are just plain interesting. Here are a few from the first part of this week. I spotted the chart below on the …

Tags:5K (5120 x 2880)| Automotive| Desktop Monitors| LG Electronics (LGE)| Market Data| Metasurfaces| Oculus VR| OLEDs| Operating Systems| Optics| Remote Controls| Roku| Samsung| STBs

Looking Back on My Display Daily Year

by Bob Raikes

Like many others, at this time of year, I thought I’d look back and a bit forward to see if I could see any patterns in what I have written over the last year …

Tags:Colour (Color)| Dual Panel LCDs| HDR - High Dynamic Range| LTPO TFT| Market Data| Microdisplays| MicroLED| MiniLED| OLEDs| Optics| Wide Colour Gamut (WCG)

US researchers shrink camera to the size of a salt grain

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Optics.org reported research from the Universities of Princeton and Washington that has led to the development of a camera using ‘metasurfaces’ that is just the size of a grain of salt. …

Tags:Cameras| Metasurfaces| Optics

Apple Wins US Lenticular Display Patent

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Patently Apple reported that the USPTO has awarded a patent to the Cupertino company that allows the use of a display with lenticular lenses to show different content to different users. …

Tags:Autostereo 3D| Lenses| Optics| Patents

Optics and Gravel

by Kenneth Li

Last week, I (Bob the editor) wrote a Display Daily on metasurfaces and the ways that new techniques are being used to bring new and quite dramatic changes to optics – and which may …

Tags:3D Printers| Metasurfaces| Optics

Volvo Cars Tech Fund has Invested $2M in Optics Start-Up

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Volvo Cars has invested in a technology company called Spectralics (not to be confused with, as it was in the original report I saw Spectralis, which does something different!). Spectralics is …

Tags:Automotive| Financial Data| Head Up Displays HUDs| Optics

Is There Really “No Moore’s Law for Optics”?

by Bob Raikes

I’m going to start today’s Display Daily, but getting out, up-front, that I am no expert in optics. However, the topic has been getting more and more interesting recently and because of the critical …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Lenses| Metasurfaces| Optics| R&D (Research & Development)| Virtual Reality

Pitted Metalens is More Robust

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Up to now, most metalens architectures have been based on building raised pillars to create nanosurfaces that can influence light to create metalenses. Now Optics.org reports that a group at Harvard …

Tags:Metasurfaces| Optics| R&D (Research & Development)

Varjo Gets Aero

by Bob Raikes

If you want to get my attention as an editor and a writer, one good way is to highlight the human factors that have helped you to come to the design decisions that you …

Tags:MiniLED| Optics| Virtual Reality

Peak Nanosystems Gains Backing for Thin Optics

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Peak Nanosystems of Ohio has received $25 million in funding to help boost its production of gradient index (GRIN) optics. The company makes nano-layered polymer GRIN optics that mean that the …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Investment| Mixed Reality| Optics| Virtual Reality