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Imaging the rainbow

Nature Nanotechnology volume 13, pages 179–180 (2018)Cite this article

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Dielectric metalenses made of high-index materials can compensate material dispersion to achieve broadband imaging in the visible.

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Fig. 1: Focusing of white light with lenses.
Fig. 2: Schematics of the meta-atom unit cell for the two design approaches.

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