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A low-cost, portable polarizing digital light microscope for monitoring crystal growth and for crystal harvesting
Sarah Kennedy
R.-Y.-J. Huang
Wojciech Witek
Pawel Krawinski
C. Boland
Lin-Jie Yang
Neal Leddy
M. Caffrey
Sep 2026 · Journal of Applied Crystallography · Vol 59, pp. 1693 - 1706 · 0 citations
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Medicine
Abstract
A low-cost, portable, medium-resolution polarizing digital light microscope device for monitoring crystal growth and for crystal harvesting is described. The device can be used with a cell phone or a personal computer for real-time imaging by professional and amateur scientists alike.