{"id":4959,"date":"2022-04-19T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-19T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/espacestudio.ca\/this-metasurface-camera-is-the-size-of-a-grain-of-salt\/"},"modified":"2022-04-19T03:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-04-19T07:00:00","slug":"this-metasurface-camera-is-the-size-of-a-grain-of-salt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/espacestudio.ca\/en\/this-metasurface-camera-is-the-size-of-a-grain-of-salt\/","title":{"rendered":"This metasurface camera is the size of a grain of salt!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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An ultra-compact metasurface camera, equivalent to the size of a coarse grain of salt, has been developed by researchers at Princeton University and the University of Washington. This creation could allow for small robots to sense close-proximity surroundings and potentially help doctors detect problems in the human body.<\/p>\n

This metasurface camera has limitless potential, having overcome past problems whereby it captured distorted and fuzzy images with a limited field of view. Now the camera can produce crisp, full-color images on par with that of a conventional compound camera lens, 500,000 times larger in volume.\u00a0<\/p>\n