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Smartphone Spectrometers

Smartphones are playing an increasing role in the sciences, owing to the ubiquitous proliferation of these devices, their relatively low cost, increasing processing power and their suitability for integrated data acquisition and processing in a ‘lab in a phone’ capacity. There is furthermore the pot...

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Autores principales: McGonigle, Andrew J. S., Wilkes, Thomas C., Pering, Tom D., Willmott, Jon R., Cook, Joseph M., Mims, Forrest M., Parisi, Alfio V.
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5796291/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29342899
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s18010223
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author McGonigle, Andrew J. S.
Wilkes, Thomas C.
Pering, Tom D.
Willmott, Jon R.
Cook, Joseph M.
Mims, Forrest M.
Parisi, Alfio V.
author_facet McGonigle, Andrew J. S.
Wilkes, Thomas C.
Pering, Tom D.
Willmott, Jon R.
Cook, Joseph M.
Mims, Forrest M.
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description Smartphones are playing an increasing role in the sciences, owing to the ubiquitous proliferation of these devices, their relatively low cost, increasing processing power and their suitability for integrated data acquisition and processing in a ‘lab in a phone’ capacity. There is furthermore the potential to deploy these units as nodes within Internet of Things architectures, enabling massive networked data capture. Hitherto, considerable attention has been focused on imaging applications of these devices. However, within just the last few years, another possibility has emerged: to use smartphones as a means of capturing spectra, mostly by coupling various classes of fore-optics to these units with data capture achieved using the smartphone camera. These highly novel approaches have the potential to become widely adopted across a broad range of scientific e.g., biomedical, chemical and agricultural application areas. In this review, we detail the exciting recent development of smartphone spectrometer hardware, in addition to covering applications to which these units have been deployed, hitherto. The paper also points forward to the potentially highly influential impacts that such units could have on the sciences in the coming decades.
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spelling pubmed-57962912018-02-13 Smartphone Spectrometers McGonigle, Andrew J. S. Wilkes, Thomas C. Pering, Tom D. Willmott, Jon R. Cook, Joseph M. Mims, Forrest M. Parisi, Alfio V. Sensors (Basel) Review Smartphones are playing an increasing role in the sciences, owing to the ubiquitous proliferation of these devices, their relatively low cost, increasing processing power and their suitability for integrated data acquisition and processing in a ‘lab in a phone’ capacity. There is furthermore the potential to deploy these units as nodes within Internet of Things architectures, enabling massive networked data capture. Hitherto, considerable attention has been focused on imaging applications of these devices. However, within just the last few years, another possibility has emerged: to use smartphones as a means of capturing spectra, mostly by coupling various classes of fore-optics to these units with data capture achieved using the smartphone camera. These highly novel approaches have the potential to become widely adopted across a broad range of scientific e.g., biomedical, chemical and agricultural application areas. In this review, we detail the exciting recent development of smartphone spectrometer hardware, in addition to covering applications to which these units have been deployed, hitherto. The paper also points forward to the potentially highly influential impacts that such units could have on the sciences in the coming decades. MDPI 2018-01-14 /pmc/articles/PMC5796291/ /pubmed/29342899 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s18010223 Text en © 2018 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5796291/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s18010223
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