Measurement of fluorescence in a rhodamine-123 doped self-assembled "giant" mesostructured silica sphere using a smartphone as optical hardware.
John Canning, Angelica Lau, Masood Naqshbandi, Ingemar Petermann, Maxwell J Crossley
Interdisciplinary Photonic Laboratories, School of Chemistry, The University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia. john.canning@sydney.edu.au
Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) 2011The blue OLED emission from a mobile phone was characterised, revealing a sharp emission band centred at λ = 445 nm with a 3dB bandwidth Δλ ∼ 20 nm. It was used to excite Rhodamine 123 doped within a "giant" mesostructured silica sphere during fabrication through evaporative self-assembly of silica nanoparticles. Fluorescence was able to be detected using a standard optical microscope fitted with a green transmission pass filter and cooled CCD and with 1 ms exposure time demonstrating the potential of mobile platforms as the basis for portable diagnostics in the field.
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John Canning, Angelica Lau, Masood Naqshbandi, Ingemar Petermann, Maxwell J Crossley. Measurement of fluorescence in a rhodamine-123 doped self-assembled "giant" mesostructured silica sphere using a smartphone as optical hardware. Sensors (Basel, Switzerland). 2011;11(7):7055-62
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