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...

Cellphone microscope: A microscope that fits to your pocket

We always get fascinated with the beautiful structural life  of the micro-world because the Gods creation looks more beautiful in the sub-micron dimensions. A usual bamboo leaf looks more beautiful with its microscopic structural pattern. Moreover, the sub-microscopic investigation plays a vital role in human health.

Wikimedia commons: By Graeme Bartlett - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0

But most of us are unable to visualize this fascinating unknown world due to requirement of microscopic imaging devices such as a light microscope. Due to its high cost it can't be affordable by individual even a laboratory with low resource settings. 

Wikimedia commons- Center for Biofilm Research, Montana State University, CC BY-SA 4.0

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