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US 12,748,128 B2Granted
Microscopy imaging
AssigneeAlentic Microscience Inc.
InventorAlan Marc Fine
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Abstract
Among other things, an imaging device has a photosensitive array of pixels, and a surface associated with the array is configured to receive a specimen with at least a part of the specimen at a distance from the surface equivalent to less than about half of an average width of the pixels.
Claims20
An apparatus comprising:
- an array of photosensitive pixels at a sensor surface;
- a specimen surface configured to receive a specimen;
- a light source configured to illuminate the specimen with light having an average wavelength,
- wherein the specimen surface and the sensor surface are arranged such that a distance between at least part of the specimen and the sensor surface is less than ten times the average wavelength when the specimen is disposed on the specimen surface;
- an atomic force microscopy (AFM) cantilever configured to image the specimen while the specimen is disposed on the specimen surface;
- and
- a computing device configured to correlate a first image generated by the array of photosensitive pixels with a second image generated by the AFM cantilever.
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A method comprising:
- providing a specimen on a specimen surface;
- illuminating the specimen with light having an average wavelength;
- imaging the specimen using an array of photosensitive pixels at a sensor surface,
- wherein the specimen surface and the sensor surface are arranged such that a distance between at least part of the specimen and the sensor surface is less than ten times the average wavelength when the specimen is disposed on the specimen surface;
- while the specimen is arranged on the specimen surface, imaging the specimen using an atomic force microscopy (AFM) cantilever;
- and
- correlating a first image generated by the array of photosensitive pixels with a second image generated by the AFM cantilever.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.