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ImageJ is amazing

A long time ago in a lab about 20 miles away, I was working for a company called Mediwatch to develop a new micro-array platform that was internally named Zero-flow. It was a nifty little device that was excellent at controlling the flow of a sample over a sensor system. Read more…

By Matthew (@MCeeP), 8 years2 years ago
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Brewster angle Lego microscope

Brewster’s angle is the angle at which light of a certain polarisation won’t reflect off a surface. The resulting reflection will then be made up of only light from a single polarisation (p-polarised). This little optical quirk is how polarised lenses remove lots of scattered reflections in photographs and why Read more…

By Matthew (@MCeeP), 9 years2 years ago
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