Muscope: A miniature on-chip lensless microscope

Prajapati, Ekta and Kumar, Saurav and Kumar, Shishir (2021) Muscope: A miniature on-chip lensless microscope. bioRxiv. pp. 1-6.

[img] Text
Muscope.pdf

Download (11MB)

Abstract

In the past few decades, a significant amount of effort has been put into developing different lensless microscope designs. The existing lensless microscopes are capable of offering high resolution and wide field-of-view using super-resolution and computational techniques. But, the employment of macroscopic illumination system and unscalable opto-mechanical components limit their cost-effectiveness, scalability, mass production and on-chip integration. In this work, we report Muscope, an on-chip microscope, which fixes these issues. It extends a few mm in each dimension and comprises of an off-the-shelf electronic assembly. The futuristic microLED display chip is utilised as the light source. Each microLED on the chip functions as a microscopic light source whose position and brightness can be electronically controlled. To demonstrate Muscope, we imaged human blood smear and microbeads of diameter upto 1 μm. We also provide a proof-of-concept of its suitability with super-resolution and field-of-view enhancement techniques, without additional hardware compulsions.

[error in script]
IITH Creators:
IITH CreatorsORCiD
Kumar, ShishirUNSPECIFIED
Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: Muscope, lensless microscope
Subjects: Others > Science & Technology
Others > Engineering technology
Electrical Engineering
Divisions: Department of Electrical Engineering
Depositing User: . LibTrainee 2021
Date Deposited: 14 Jun 2021 07:19
Last Modified: 14 Jun 2021 07:19
URI: http://raiith.iith.ac.in/id/eprint/7908
Publisher URL: https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.06.09.447680
Related URLs:

Actions (login required)

View Item View Item
Statistics for RAIITH ePrint 7908 Statistics for this ePrint Item