Engineers have created electronic lenses that work better than the human eye

Engineers from the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences combined the technology of creating artificial muscles and flat contact lenses and got a new electronic lens that allows you to take photos of objects as close to how the human eye sees them. This is stated in a message on the university website.

The lens consists of a thin, transparent dielectric elastomer to which artificial muscles are attached. Together, the lens and muscle have a thickness of only 30 microns, the diameter of the device is about 1 cm.

With tiny nanostructures, the new lens focuses and can collect the entire spectrum of visible light at one point. This allows her to change focus in real time - similar to how the human eye does it.

In some aspects, the new lens surpasses its natural prototype - for example, it can make corrections for astigmatism and image bias, which is inaccessible to the human eye.

The authors of the study note: the likelihood that new lenses will appear in consumer cameras and gadgets in the near future is extremely small - most likely, up to ten years will pass before the development is introduced.

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