Smartphone spectrometers
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Article Title | Smartphone spectrometers |
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ERA Journal ID | 34304 |
Article Category | Article |
Authors | McGonigle, Andrew J. S. (Author), Wilkes, Thomas C. (Author), Pering, Tom D. (Author), Willmott, Jon R. (Author), Cook, Joseph M. (Author), Mims III, Forrest M. (Author) and Parisi, Alfio V. (Author) |
Journal Title | Sensors |
Journal Citation | 18 (1), pp. 1-15 |
Article Number | 223 |
Number of Pages | 15 |
Year | 2018 |
Publisher | MDPI AG |
Place of Publication | Switzerland |
ISSN | 1424-8220 |
1424-8239 | |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.3390/s18010223 |
Web Address (URL) | http://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/18/1/223 |
Abstract | 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. |
Keywords | smartphone spectrometers; smartphone spectroscopy; low cost scientific instrumentation; medical diagnostics; food quality inspection; environmental monitoring |
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020 | 519999. Other physical sciences not elsewhere classified |
Byline Affiliations | University of Sheffield, United Kingdom |
Geronimo Creek Observatory, United States | |
Faculty of Health, Engineering and Sciences | |
Institution of Origin | University of Southern Queensland |
https://research.usq.edu.au/item/q48w6/smartphone-spectrometers
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