Optics startup Tunoptix wins federal grant to develop metalenses for imaging satellites at Washington Nanofabrication Facility

A portion of the team’s experimental setup for capturing an image using a metalens. The researchers capture an image of flowers through a metalens (mounted on a microscope slide) and visualize it through a microscope.

Tunoptix, an optics startup co-founded by University of Washington (UW) electrical and computer engineering professors Karl Böhringer and Arka Majumdar, was awarded $223,000 in Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) funding from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to develop metasurface lenses (or metalenses) for imaging in satellites at the UW Washington Nanofabrication Facility.

A-Alpha Bio wins grand prize at Hollomon Health Innovation Challenge

The team behind A-Alpha Bio, including David Younger, a postdoc in the lab of Eric Klavins and A-Alpha Bio CEO, won the $15,000 grand prize at the 2018 Hollomon Health Innovation Challenge.