Metalenz
Metasurface optics and sensing platforms that add depth, polarization and color data to phone, automotive and industrial cameras
Highlights
- New on EvolcAdded 2026-11-14
About Metalenz
Metalenz is a fabless semiconductor optics company that makes metasurface optics, flat layers of nanostructures that replace multi-element lens stacks. Its sensing platforms include PolarEyes (near-infrared polarization sensing), PxE (visible color and depth from a holographic encoder that replaces the color filter array) and Polar ID, a face-authentication application.
Customers are consumer device, automotive and industrial manufacturers. The company licenses its technology and manufactures meta-optics with semiconductor foundry partners, including STMicroelectronics and UMC. It states that more than 300 million Metalenz metasurfaces are in use today.
Metalenz was founded in 2016 by Rob Devlin and Federico Capasso and spun out of research at Harvard's Capasso Lab. Its headquarters is in Boston. In 2026 it acquired PxE Holographic Imaging. It is hiring for Boston-based research and development internships for summer 2027.
Product: Metasurface meta-optics and sensing modules (PolarEyes, PxE, Polar ID) for depth, polarization and color perception in devices
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