Researchers have demonstrated that consumer-grade 3D printers and inexpensive materials can produce advanced optical ...

To unravel the complexities of biological phenomena, scientists have long relied on microscopy to visualize the intricate details of their specimens, including tissue architecture, cell morphology, ...

Researchers have shown that consumer-grade 3D printers and low-cost materials can be used to produce multi-element optical ...

Using a tiny, spherical glass lens sandwiched between two brass plates, the 17th-century Dutch microscopist Antonie van Leeuwenhoek was the first to officially describe red blood cells and sperm cells ...

Researchers from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) led by Prof. ZHANG Douguo have unveiled a planar optical device that significantly enhances the capabilities of dark-field ...

Researchers have reported a sample-prior-based approach to point spread function decoupling that improves system ...

Computational fluorescence microscopy (CFM) requires accurate point spread function (PSF) characterization for high-quality ...

Schematic of the planar device for producing dark- field speckle patterns. (Image from USTC). Credit: Douguo Zhang et al. Researchers from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) have ...