#  Metalenz: the Harvard Capasso group start-up 

 



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[Metalenz,](https://www.metalenz.com/) which was spun out of the Capasso group, brings the flat optics revolution to the smartphone and sensor markets.

**Read the** [**story**](https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2022/08/can-tech-developed-at-harvard-disrupt-lens-making-industry/) **about Flat Optics, Professor Capasso, and Metalenz at the** [**Harvard Gazette**](https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2022/08/can-tech-developed-at-harvard-disrupt-lens-making-industry/) **and his** [**interview with Nature Photonics**](https://doi.org/10.1038/s41566-022-01102-y) **on Metaoptics for the consumer market.**

Metalenz and STMicroelectronics deliver the world’s first optical metasurface technology for consumer electronics devices ([STM press release](https://newsroom.st.com/media-center/press-item.html/t4458.html)).

Metalenz and UMC will fabricate mass-market metasurfaces in Singapore ([Metalenz press release](https://metalenz.com/metalenz-launches-its-metasurface-optics-on-the-open-market-in-partnership-with-umc/), [Forbes article](https://www.forbes.com/sites/sabbirrangwala/2023/07/05/metalenz-pioneers-high-volume-semiconductor-foundry-based-lens-manufacturing/?sh=57cfa72223bd)).

The world's first commercial metasurface device is now available for 3D depth sensing and LIDAR applications.



 

## Links

Find out more about Metalenz here: <https://www.metalenz.com/>. For further reading, see the articles at:

- [Harvard Office of Technology Development](https://otd.harvard.edu/news/harvards-metalens-technology-enters-commercial-development/)
- [New York Times](https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/27/science/metamaterials-technology.html)
- [IEEE Spectrum](https://spectrum.ieee.org/metalens-2660294513)
- [SPIE news](https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnkoetsier/2022/06/08/worlds-first-printable-optical-metasurface-for-vision-3d-sensing-lidar-now-shipping-in-consumer-products/?sh=3ec5eaed5e5d)
- [Forbes](https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnkoetsier/2022/06/08/worlds-first-printable-optical-metasurface-for-vision-3d-sensing-lidar-now-shipping-in-consumer-products/?sh=3ec5eaed5e5d)
- [STMicroelectronics](https://newsroom.st.com/media-center/press-item.html/t4458.html)
- [The Harvard Gazette, 2025](https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2025/03/from-harvard-lab-to-your-living-room/)