US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on July 8 for "On-chip phase modulating thin film optical elements" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,352,922, issued on July 8, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (South Korea).

"On-chip phase modulating thin film optical elements" was invented by Haeri Park Hanania (Sierra Madre, Calif.), Radwanul Hasan Siddique (Monrovia, Calif.) and Yibing Michelle Wang (Temple City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A thin-film optical device disclosed herein includes a metalens able to modulate the phase of incident light. The metalens includes a thin-film layer having a first index of refraction, an embedded layer within the thin-film layer, and the embedded layer having a second index of refraction greater than or equal to 1.5 and le...