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H.H. Sheikh Sultan bin Ahmed bin Sultan Al Qasimi, Deputy Ruler of Sharjah and President of the University of Sharjah, ...

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Harvard engineers unveiled the world's first visible-spectrum metasurfaces -- ultra-thin, flat devices patterned with nanoscale ...

This innovation marks a key step toward lighter, more efficient, and more versatile optical ... used in telescopes, are less affected but introduce other distortions. The new flat lens minimizes this ...