Researchers from the Australian Research Council Center of Excellence for Transformative Meta-Optical Systems (TMOS) have developed a metasurface capable of imaging microscopic objects that are otherwise nearly invisible. Led by professor Ann Roberts and TMOS Ph.D. student Haiwei Wang, the research brought together teams from the Center’s RMIT University and The University of Melbourne nodes and was published in Nanophotonics.

In medicine, biology and materials science, being able to capture images of microscopic objects that are nearly entirely transparent provides an important source of information for disease diagnosis and pure research.