Rob Devlin

Rob Devlin is Co-founder and CEO of Metalenz, a fabless optical semiconductor company pioneering the commercialization of meta-optics. His work focuses on moving scientific research towards real world applications leading to 15 patents and patent applications. In 2022, Rob and his team at Metalenz announced the world’s first metasurfaces in market in consumer devices via a partnership with semiconductor giant, STMicroelectronics.

Prior to co-founding Metalenz, Rob completed a joint BS/MS in Electrical Engineering and Materials Science at Drexel University and a Ph.D. at Harvard University in Applied Physics with Professor Federico Capasso. His research has spanned the topics of nanofabrication, nanophotonics and materials science. He has authored or co-authored 20+ publications that have provided critical advances in the emerging field of metasurfaces- one of which was selected as the cover of Science Journal and voted one of Science’s 10 breakthroughs of 2016.

元光子材料及其应用展望

众所周知，虚拟现实就是用户可以在模拟的数字环境中体验跨地域和时区的充满真实世界细节的互动和联系。这些虚拟世界所需的设备由各种传感器组成，而 3D 传感是最重要的方法之一。在 3D 传感器模块中，激光的准确传输和接收与所用光学器件的精度和性能高度相关——无论是用于发射的红外 (IR) 激光器还是用于接收和测量它的图像传感器。本演讲将探讨具有颠覆性的光学超表面技术如何实现下一代 3D 传感能力。与传统光学相比，采用超表面光学技术的激光图案性能和精度得到显着提高。此外，超表面光学技术的器件在大规模量产可重复性、器件的温度稳定性和外形尺寸减小方面都有显著的优良表现。