Microscope On A Chip

Researchers at Caltech recently developed a revolutionary new type of microscope without lenses. The device is compact enough to be put in a cell phone and can use just sunlight for illumination. This makes it very appealing for Third-World applications,

clipped from www.sciencedaily.com Bioengineers Develop 'Microscope On A Chip' ScienceDaily (July 29, 2008) — Researchers at the California Institute of Technology have turned science fiction into reality with their development of a super-compact high-resolution microscope, small enough to fit on a finger tip. This "microscopic microscope" operates without lenses but has the magnifying power of a top-quality optical microscope, can be used in the field to analyze blood samples for malaria or check water supplies for giardia and other pathogens, and can be mass-produced for around $10. clipped from www.caltech.edu clipped from www.biophot.caltech.edu Nanophotonics and Optofluidics clipped from www.biophot.caltech.edu Changhuei Yang clipped from www.biophot.caltech.edu Optofluidic Microscopy Fig. 1: compact OFM prototype, compared with a US quarter. Fig. 2: (a) OFM's layout. Red arrows: illumination; green arrow: flow direction (b) SeveralOFM images of wild-type C. elegans; white bar =25 µm (for all images) (c) Aspect ratio map, blue data points: wild -type L1 larvae; red: dpy24 L1 larvae. clipped from mr.caltech.edu An on-chip implementation of the optofluidic microscope.

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