Marine Creatures Provide Optical Lessons.(marine invertebrates offer insight for lens industry)(Brief Article)

From: Semiconductor International | Date: October 1, 2001| Author: Hand, Aaron | Copyright information

As mentioned in this space last month, lens designers will continue to face even tougher challenges as the industry moves ahead in its quest for finer features (see Semiconductor International, September 2001, p.42). They might do well to take another lesson from nature.

Researchers at Lucent Technologies' Bell Laboratories (Murray Hill, N.J.), the Weizmann Institute of Science (Rehovot, Israel) and the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County (Los Angeles) have disc...

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