Microscope without lens: Chip-scale microscope with a smartphone

Remove the lens module of your smartphone camera and make it a microscope. A research group from Biophotonics Laboratory at Caltech developed a smartphone microscope without using any lens. The imaging platform is based on the contact imaging or shadow imaging with the power of rigorous image processing capability of the smartphone. 

   

As reported in their research article in the highly acclaimed journal "Lab on a Chip" from royal society of chemistry (Click for more information) the microscope can image blood smears. The chip-scale microscope is demonstrated to image various micron size algae in a pond in the above video.   This work proves the remark "a smartphone can do lots of things besides just clicking a shot".   Please subscribe for more updates...