Microlenses as amplification for CCD-based detection devices for screening applications in biology, biochemistry, and chemistry

Applied Optics

Volumn 37, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 1930-1934

  Schlingloff, Gregor ^a   Kiel, Hans Jürgen ^b   Schober, Andreas ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF PHOTONIC TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (Armenia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION; APPROXIMATION THEORY; BIOCHEMISTRY; BIOLOGY; CHEMISTRY; ESTIMATION; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; PHOTODETECTORS;

FIRST ORDER APPROXIMATION; MICROLENSES;

OPTICAL INSTRUMENT LENSES;

EID: 0032050482     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.37.001930     Document Type: Article

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