A general overview of the development of the uses of light-emitting diodes in analytical
instrumentation is given. Fundamental aspects of light-emitting diodes, as far as relevant for …

Microcontrollers and field-programmable gate arrays have been largely leveraged in
scientific instrumentation since decades. Recent advancements in the performance of these …

The efficient and sensitive detection of pathogenic microorganisms in aqueous
environments, such as water used in medical applications, drinking water, and cooling water …

Fluorescence spectroscopy and lifetime techniques are potential methods for optical
diagnosis and characterization of biological tissues with an in-situ, fast, and noninvasive …

Semiconductor quantum dots (QDs) embedded into polymer microbeads are known to be
very attractive emitters for spectral multiplexing and colour encoding. Their luminescence …

A high intensity, ultra-short LED pulsing driver circuit is developed for use with a system
designed to perform real-time time-resolved, transient recording of a fluorescence. Details of …

Time-resolved photoluminescence (PL) is commonly used to track dynamics in a broad
range of materials. Thus, the search for simplification of the acquisition of PL kinetics attracts …

This paper presents a miniature and cost-effective cell fiber-spectrophotometer based on
fluorescence emission sensing for real-time detection of biomarkers. The prototype …

There is a growing need for portable, highly sensitive measuring equipment to analyze
samples in situ and in real time. For these reasons, it is becoming increasingly important to …

Time-resolved flow cytometry represents an alternative to commonly applied spectral or
intensity multiplexing in bioanalytics. At present, the vast majority of the reports on this topic …