SMRTR Science & EngineeringMay 13, 2026Interesting Engineering

MIT scientists shrink light-bending devices 2,000 times in a major breakthrough

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Researchers at MIT developed "implosion carving," a technique that shrinks 3D optical devices to 1/2,000th their size with 100-nanometer precision, potentially enabling optical computing chips and cancer cell detection.

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