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Business Times
16-05-2025
- Business
- Business Times
MetaOptics' single-layered glass lens improves performance and sustainability
[SINGAPORE] Local semiconductor optics startup MetaOptics Technologies is harnessing nanophotonics and artificial intelligence (AI) to overhaul traditional lens systems used in consumer electronics, augmented and virtual reality and scientific imaging. Its flagship innovation, the Advanced Color Metalens Imaging System, replaces multi-layer plastic lenses with a single-layer glass metalens. Using deep ultraviolet (DUV) immersion lithography on 12-inch wafers – a process borrowed from semiconductor manufacturing – the system dramatically reduces the thickness and weight of camera modules, while offering enhanced durability and colour accuracy. The cameras in today's smartphones and point-and-shoot devices typically rely on stacked layers of plastic or glass lenses to focus light. Innovative lenses But this bulky architecture may soon be obsolete. Metalenses are flat optical components that can perform the same function using just a single layer of intricately patterned nanostructures. SEE ALSO EtonHouse teachers now teach more and do less admin with AI GET BT IN YOUR INBOX DAILY Start and end each day with the latest news stories and analyses delivered straight to your inbox. Sign Up VIEW ALL MetaOptics uses semiconductor fabrication techniques to etch millions of microscopic pillars – each about 1/800th the width of a human hair – onto glass wafers. A 1.5 mm lens can contain more than six million of these nano-pillars, precisely engineered to manipulate light and focus images with incredible accuracy. MetaOptics identified problems with bulky optics, environmental concerns and inconsistent image quality in compact devices, based on feedback from the industry. By working with engineers, designers and software developers, they created a single-layer RGB glass lens that can independently tune red, green and blue light without filters – producing sharper, more vibrant images. To further enhance imaging, MetaOptics developed AI-based software that performs real-time fusion of RGB channels, automatically fine-tuning contrast, sharpness and noise. The company's proprietary algorithms restore image quality to near-original, high-resolution levels, even under varying lighting conditions – a challenge that has long plagued mobile and embedded imaging systems.
Business Times
16-05-2025
- Business Times
EtonHouse teachers now teach more and do less admin with AI
[SINGAPORE] Education provider EtonHouse is leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) to empower its teachers to teach more, as well as to do less administrative work. Lumina, EtonHouse's AI planner for its educators, leverages generative AI via OpenAI's application programming interface for curriculum planning and creating new lessons. The inspiration for Lumina came from interviews with educators, who expressed their struggles in balancing student engagement and meeting learning targets while they are overwhelmed by their workload. Compounding the burden was the constant data entry into Microsoft Excel sheets with no central repository for lesson planning, often leading to multiple versions and confusion. The AI planner was developed with feedback from key teachers and the pedagogy team at EtonHouse. This was to ensure that the prototype met the needs of teachers and was aligned with the education provider's teaching approach. Privacy and data protection were also designed into Lumina, with no personally identifiable information stored on the system or submitted to the AI model. SEE ALSO Revolutionising drug discovery with AI in South-east Asia GET BT IN YOUR INBOX DAILY Start and end each day with the latest news stories and analyses delivered straight to your inbox. Sign Up VIEW ALL In prototyping Lumina, it was put through its paces through testing at selected EtonHouse centres, with feedback gathered through surveys and interviews. Tweaks were also made to the user interface to make it intuitive for teachers, including accessibility features and an analytical chatbot. Lumina has gone through a number of iterations, and now has real-time tracking of learning objectives, and multi-language support. With this tool, teachers are empowered rather than replaced. It also eliminates inconsistencies from siloed systems, with standardised learning outcomes for the students.
