Materials & Manufacturing · Recorded milestone
Everyday metamaterials
Recorded year2022
Metalenz's flat metasurface lens ships in STMicroelectronics' 3D sensors (2022), the first metamaterial optics in mass-market devices.
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- 3D printingRecorded · 1984enables
- MetamaterialsRecorded · 2000enables
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Sources & evidence
Dataset updated 2026-10-18. This individual record has not been separately re-reviewed.