NILT wins Prism Award

metaEye™ by NIL Technology Wins International Award for Best Camera and Imaging System

Copenhagen, Denmark, January 29, 2025 – NIL Technology (NILT), a global leader in meta-optics design and manufacturing wins the prestigious Prism Award for the NILT metaEye™, an ultracompact metalens-based camera in the Best Camera and Imaging System category. The Prism Awards recognize and honor innovative products and companies that are bringing transformative solutions to market. Winners were announced tonight, Wednesday 29 January, at a gala celebration in San Francisco that takes place during SPIE Photonics West.

NILT wins Prism Award | NIL Technology

“We are excited to demonstrate to the world the versatility of our meta-optics technology. We have built this camera relying entirely on metalenses to show what is possible to do with metalenses. The metaEye is a testimony to how far we have taken the metaoptics technology. The camera consist of not one, but two stacked lenses and the performance of the camera is amazing. We are very honored and proud to receive the Prism Award this year,” says Theodor Nielsen, CEO, NIL Technology.

First Ultra-Compact Camera Made Possible with Metalenses

NILT metaEye™ is the first realized camera using NILT’s pioneering meta-optical elements and meta-optics camera architecture . The unique architecture is more compact, simpler, and more robust than any other camera on the market, all while delivering performance that typically requires 3 to 4 refractive lenses. The metaEye™ camera is configured especially to match eye-tracking requirements and it is showcased at NILTs exhibition (#5335) at Photonics West together with two other configurations, the metaMacro™ and the metaInfinity™ which have close range and long range target object distance, respectively.

“This transformative metaEye™ design concept truly reveals the power of metalenses and will set new standards in the field of compact cameras and Rx modules for sensing and machine vision applications” says Ulrich Quaade, VP Optics, NIL Technology

About NILT
NIL Technology (NILT), founded in 2006, is an optical solutions company designing, developing, and manufacturing optical elements and components using high-precision nanoscale features. NILT creates competitive advantages with flat optics (meta-optics) in optical applications for 3D sensing, consumer electronics, machine vision, autonomous vehicles, telecommunication, and AR. With its background in mastering for nanoimprint, the company produces masters and offers nano-foundry services. NILT is based in Denmark and has offices in Switzerland, Sweden, US, and a manufacturing in Malaysia. NILT is owned by Radiant Opto-Electronics Corporation (www.radiant.com.tw).

Media inquiries, please contact, Pamela Robertson, Marketing and Communications, NIL Technology, email: pamr ’at’ nilt.com, phone: +1 360 510 0858.

Sales inquiries, please contact Brian Orr, VP Sales, at contact ‘at’ nilt.com

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