Miniature optofluidic darkfield microscope for biosensing

Zhenyu Li

doi:10.1117/12.2062642

19 September 2014 Miniature optofluidic darkfield microscope for biosensing

Zhenyu Li

Proceedings Volume 9198, Ultrafast Nonlinear Imaging and Spectroscopy II; 91980G (2014) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2062642
Event: SPIE Optical Engineering + Applications, 2014, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

Darkfield microscopy is an extremely sensitive imaging and sensing modality due to its very low background. Metal nanoparticles as small as 20nm can been detected by darkfield imaging setups. However, traditional darkfield microscopes are bulky and require special illumination condensers, which limits their application in point-of-care biosensing. In this paper, we present a miniaturized darkfield microscope based on liquid metallic on-chip condensers and imaging lenses. This microscope is fully compatible with PDMS microfluidics and can be attached to a smartphone camera to build a complete handheld biosensing system with very high sensitivity and low cost.

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Zhenyu Li "Miniature optofluidic darkfield microscope for biosensing", Proc. SPIE 9198, Ultrafast Nonlinear Imaging and Spectroscopy II, 91980G (19 September 2014); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2062642

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