{"id":80785,"date":"2025-07-18T07:54:41","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T07:54:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/electronicsmaker.com\/?p=80785"},"modified":"2025-07-18T07:54:42","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T07:54:42","slug":"stmicroelectronics-and-metalenz-sign-a-new-license-agreement-to-accelerate-metasurface-optics-adoption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/electronicsmaker.com\/stmicroelectronics-and-metalenz-sign-a-new-license-agreement-to-accelerate-metasurface-optics-adoption","title":{"rendered":"STMicroelectronics and Metalenz Sign a New License Agreement to Accelerate Metasurface Optics Adoption"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul>\n<li><strong><em>New license agreement enabling the proliferation of metasurface optics across high-volume consumer, automotive and industrial markets: from smartphone applications like biometrics, LIDAR and camera assist, to robotics, gesture recognition, or object detection.<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong><em>The agreement broadens ST\u2019s capability to use Metalenz IP to produce advanced metasurface optics while leveraging ST\u2019s unique technology and manufacturing platform combining 300mm semiconductor and optics production, test and qualification.<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"337\" src=\"https:\/\/electronicsmaker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/ST-and-Metalenz.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-80786\" srcset=\"https:\/\/electronicsmaker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/ST-and-Metalenz.jpg 600w, https:\/\/electronicsmaker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/ST-and-Metalenz-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>STMicroelectronics (NYSE: STM)<\/strong>, a global semiconductor leader serving customers across the spectrum of electronics applications and Metalenz, the pioneer of metasurface optics, announced a new license agreement. The agreement broadens ST\u2019s capability to use Metalenz IP to produce advanced metasurface optics while leveraging ST\u2019s unique technology and manufacturing platform combining 300mm semiconductor and optics production, test and qualification.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u201cSTMicroelectronics is the unique supplier on the market offering a groundbreaking combination of optics and semiconductor technology. Since 2022, we have shipped well over 140 million metasurface optics and FlightSense&#x2122; modules using Metalenz IP. The new license agreement with Metalenz bolsters our technology leadership in consumer, industrial and automotive segments, and will enable new opportunities from smartphone applications like biometrics, LIDAR and camera assist, to robotics, gesture recognition, or object detection,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0underlined\u00a0<strong>Alexandre Balmefrezol, Executive Vice President and General Manager of STMicroelectronics\u2019s Imaging Sub-Group.<\/strong>\u00a0<em>\u201cOur unique model, processing optical technology in our 300mm semiconductor fab, ensures high precision, cost-effectiveness, and scalability to meet the requests of our customers for high-volume, complex applications.\u201d<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/newsroom.st.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/300mm-metasurface-optics-manufactured-ST-integrating-Metalenz-big.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u201cOur agreement with STMicroelectronics has the potential to further fast-track the adoption of metasurfaces from their origins at Harvard to adoption by market leading consumer electronics companies,\u201d<\/em>&nbsp;said&nbsp;<strong>Rob Devlin, co-founder and CEO of Metalenz<\/strong>.&nbsp;<em>\u201cBy enabling the shift of optics production into semiconductor manufacturing, this agreement has the possibility to further redefine the sensing ecosystem. As use cases for 3D sensing continue to expand, ST\u2019s technology leadership in the market together with our IP leadership solidifies ST and Metalenz as the dominant forces in the emergent metasurface market we created.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The new license agreement aims to address the growing market opportunity for metasurface optics projected to experience significant growth to reach $2B by 2029*; largely driven by the industry\u2019s role in emerging display and imaging applications. (*Yole Group, Optical Metasurfaces, 2024 report)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Note to editors<\/strong><br>In 2022, metasurface technology from Metalenz, which spun out of Harvard and holds the exclusive license rights to the foundational Harvard metasurface patent portfolio, debuted with ST\u2019s market leading direct Time-of-Flight (dToF) FlightSense modules.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Replacing the traditional lens stacks and shifting to metasurface optics instead has improved the optical performance and temperature stability of the FlightSense modules while reducing their size and complexity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The use of 300mm wafers ensures high precision and performance in optical applications, as well as the inherent scalability and robustness advantage of semiconductor manufacturing process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>STMicroelectronics (NYSE: STM), a global semiconductor leader serving customers across the spectrum of electronics applications and Metalenz, the pioneer of metasurface optics, announced a new license agreement. 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