Stanford researchers have developed an innovative technology for cryo-vitrification using a temperature-controlled cold gas stream instead of traditional liquid cryogen, which prevents grid distortion, enabling gentle sample cooling and continuous imaging throughout the vitrif
Active manipulation of light beams is required for a range of emerging optical technologies, including sensing, optical computing, virtual/augmented reality, dynamic holography, and computational imaging.
Stanford researchers in the Vuckovic group have developed an optical phased array (OPA) for solid-state beam-steering in optical systems such as LIDAR, projectors, and microscopy.
This invention facilitates the realization of optical elements with spatially multiplexed/interleaved phase profiles to achieve a high packing density of distinct optical elements on a surface.
Researchers at Stanford have developed a dielectric diffraction grating that provides high (near-unity) diffraction efficiencies in an ultra-compact volume.
Researchers at Stanford have developed a technique that leverages multifocal widefield optics to enable high-speed, synchronous, genetically-specified recording of neural activity across the entirety of mouse dorsal cortex at near-cellular resolution.
Stanford researchers have developed a hydrodynamic treadmill system for a tracking microscope that allows long term observations of biological and abiotic systems over large length and time scales.
Stanford researchers at the Dionne Lab have introduced new vibrational spectroscopy, termed electron- and light induced stimulated Raman (ELISR) scattering, in electron microscopy for simultaneous high-resolution chemical mapping of various samples.
Stanford researchers at the Prakash Lab have developed Octopi, a low-cost ($250-$500) and reconfigurable autonomous microscopy platform capable of automated slide scanning and correlated bright-field and fluorescence imaging.
Stanford researchers at the Kasevich Lab have developed a module that can attach to any standard optical system or sensor for wide-field, time-resolved imaging.
Stanford researchers at the Kasevich Lab have prototyped a multi-pass electron microscope that can image nanometer scale samples including electron damage sensitive proteins and other electron dose sensitive nanostructures with low damage.
Researchers in Prof. Mark Schnitzer's laboratory have developed a two-photon scanning microscope for imaging neural activity in a 2x2mm field of view while maintaining a fast scanning rate (~10Hz image update frequency).
Stanford researchers successfully manufactured high quality optical components using commercially available 3D printing. The 3D printed optics were easy to fabricate and inexpensive.
Stanford researchers have developed a lanthanide-doped upconverting nanoparticle (UCNP) that emits very photostable and non-blinking light, and is bright enough to delineate tumor boundaries to the naked eye during surgery.