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ArticleScience advances2016

Ultrasensitive interferometric on-chip microscopy of transparent objects.

Roland A Terborg, Josselin Pello, Ilaria Mannelli, Juan P Torres, Valerio Pruneri

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Article in Science advances, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Roland A TerborgICFO-Institut de Ciències Fotòniques, The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, 08860 Castelldefels (Barcelona), Spain.ORCID 0000-0002-7246-0597
Josselin PelloICFO-Institut de Ciències Fotòniques, The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, 08860 Castelldefels (Barcelona), Spain.ORCID 0000-0002-3352-0198
Ilaria MannelliICFO-Institut de Ciències Fotòniques, The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, 08860 Castelldefels (Barcelona), Spain.ORCID 0000-0001-5322-839X
Juan P TorresICFO-Institut de Ciències Fotòniques, The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, 08860 Castelldefels (Barcelona), Spain.; Department of Signal Theory and Communications, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 08034 Barcelona, Spain.
Valerio PruneriICFO-Institut de Ciències Fotòniques, The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, 08860 Castelldefels (Barcelona), Spain.; ICREA-Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats, Passeig Lluís Companys 23, 08010 Barcelona, Spain.ORCID 0000-0002-6425-9332
Institute of Photonic Sciences · ESInstitució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats · ES

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Light microscopes can detect objects through several physical processes, such as scattering, absorption, and reflection. In transparent objects, these mechanisms are often too weak, and interference effects are more suitable to observe the tiny refractive index variations that produce phase shifts. We propose an on-chip microscope design that exploits birefringence in an unconventional geometry. It makes use of two sheared and quasi-overlapped illuminating beams experiencing relative phase shifts when going through the object, and a complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor image sensor array to record the resulting interference pattern. Unlike conventional microscopes, the beams are unfocused, leading to a very large field of view (20 mm(2)) and detection volume (more than 0.5 cm(3)), at the expense of lateral resolution. The high axial sensitivity (<1 nm) achieved using a novel phase-shifting interferometric operation makes the proposed device ideal for examining transparent substrates and reading microarrays of biomarkers. This is demonstrated by detecting nanometer-thick surface modulations on glass and single and double protein layers.

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Equipment DesignMicroscopy, InterferenceMicroscopy, Phase-ContrastMolecular ImagingSensitivity and Specificitydigital interference contrast microscopyhigh-throughput biodetectioninterferometrylens-free imagingon-chip sensing

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PMID27386571
PMCPMC4928994
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