Stanford researchers have developed the Large-scale Electrophysiology Amplification Platform (LEAP), a wireless, label-free optical system for monitoring the electrical activity of neurons and heart cells.
The Stanford team has developed a method to dynamically control the topography of nano-scale surfaces using soft, responsive polymers, enabling new ways to actively shape the spectral, angular and polarization properties of light in response to electrical and chemical stimuli
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.