Research
Optofluidic Microscopy (OFM)
Optofluidic microscopy (OFM) is a new compact and
lensless microscopic imaging technique invented in our lab. It
abandons the conventional microscope design, which requires expensive
lenses and large space to magnify images, and instead utilizes
microfluidic flow to deliver specimens across array(s) of micrometer-size
apertures defined on a metal-coated CMOS sensor to generate direct
projection images. The size of our OFM prototype device is as
small as a US quarter, and yet can render images comparable in
quality to those of a microscope with 20X objective.
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