Integrated elastic microscope device

W. M. Lee; D. Wright; R. Watkins; Zi Cen

doi:10.1117/12.2076100

9 March 2015 Integrated elastic microscope device

W. M. Lee, D. Wright, R. Watkins, Zi Cen

Proceedings Volume 9332, Optical Diagnostics and Sensing XV: Toward Point-of-Care Diagnostics; 93320N (2015) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2076100
Event: SPIE BiOS, 2015, San Francisco, California, United States

Abstract

The growing power of imaging and computing power of smartphones is creating the possibility of converting your smartphone into a high power pocket microscopy system. High quality miniature microscopy lenses attached to smartphone are typically made with glass or plastics that can only be produce at low cost with high volume. To revise the paradigm of microscope lenses, we devised a simple droplet lens fabrication technique that which produces low cost and high performance lens. Each lens is integrated into thin 3-D printed holder with complimentary light emitted diode (LEDs) that clips onto majority of smartphones. The integrated device converts a smartphone into a high power optical microscope/dermatoscope at around $2. This low cost device has wide application in a multitude of practical uses such as material inspection, dermascope and educational microscope.

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W. M. Lee, D. Wright, R. Watkins, and Zi Cen "Integrated elastic microscope device", Proc. SPIE 9332, Optical Diagnostics and Sensing XV: Toward Point-of-Care Diagnostics, 93320N (9 March 2015); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2076100

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