The main obstacle in retrieving quantitative phase with high sensitivity is posed by the phase
noise due to mechanical vibrations and air fluctuations that typically affect any …

Digital holography possesses the advantages of wide-field, non-contact, precise, and
dynamic measurements for the complex amplitude of object waves. Today, digital …

Computational microscopy, as a subfield of computational imaging, combines optical
manipulation and image algorithmic reconstruction to recover multi-dimensional microscopic …

Single-crystalline silicon nanomembranes (Si NMs) represent a critically important class of
material for high-performance forms of electronics that are capable of complete, controlled …

Neurons undergo nanometer-scale deformations during action potentials, and the
underlying mechanism has been actively debated for decades. Previous observations were …

Shape fluctuations of lipid membranes have intrigued cell biologists and physicists alike. In
the cellular context, their origin—thermal or active—and their physiological significance are …

Quantitative phase imaging (QPI) is an emerging label-free modality that attracts significant
interest in biomedicine in general and neuroscience in particular. Based on the principle of …

Quantitative phase imaging (QPI), a method that precisely recovers the wavefront of an
electromagnetic field scattered by a transparent, weakly scattering object, is a rapidly …

The invention provides transient devices, including active and passive devices that
electrically and/or physically transform upon application of at least one internal and/or …

Currently, cellular action potentials are detected using either electrical recordings or
exogenous fluorescent probes that sense the calcium concentration or transmembrane …