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* Portable, low cost fluorometer using blue LED as excitation source and integrating photo detector as detection element
* Portable, low cost fluorometer using blue LED as excitation source and integrating photo detector as detection element
* Sample can be thermal regulated using infrared heater and infrared thermometer
* Sample can be thermal regulated using infrared heater and infrared thermometer
* Software only regulate temperature and changing integration settings, data is not processed
* Software only regulate temperature and changing integration settings, raw data output for further processing
* Tested using FAM fluorescent dye
* Tested using FAM fluorescent dye
* No comments about performance or accuracy of the fluorometer
* No comments about performance or accuracy of the fluorometer

Revision as of 02:50, 8 May 2016

Articles Review

Hand-held thermal-regulating fluorometer [1]

  • Portable, low cost fluorometer using blue LED as excitation source and integrating photo detector as detection element
  • Sample can be thermal regulated using infrared heater and infrared thermometer
  • Software only regulate temperature and changing integration settings, raw data output for further processing
  • Tested using FAM fluorescent dye
  • No comments about performance or accuracy of the fluorometer


Versatile portable fluorometer for time-resolved luminescence analysis [2]

  • A portable, but not low cost, fluorometer for time resolved luminescence analysis
  • Uses xenon flash lamp with filter as excitation source, and photo multiplier tube with filter as the detection device
  • This device claimed to have better SNR by about 1 order of magnitude than state of the art commercial spectrometer at the time of the writing
  • Intended to detect drugs such as tetracycline
  • Could be used to test different compounds due to the multi wavelength light source


The SLIM Spectrometer [3]

  • A portable, low cost colorimeter for remote data logging application
  • Uses "flow cell" ? to allow for unattended sensing
  • Uses multiple LED because the chemical under test can absorb broader wavelength
  • Photo detector with integration and averaging method to detect intensity of light
  • Suffer from non-linearity because of the combination between absorbance profile and LED spectrum
  • Lost to commercial spectrometer in the aspect of wavelength resolution and noise
  • Claimed could easily be changed to fluorometer just by making the detection angle 90 degree to the light source

References

  1. A. S. Farmer, D. P. Fries, W. Flannery, and J. Massini, "Hand-held thermal-regulating fluorometer", Review of Scientific Instruments 76(11) pp. 115102 (2005).
  2. G. Chen, "Versatile portable fluorometer for time-resolved luminescence analysis", Review of Scientific Instruments 76(6) pp. 63107 (2005).
  3. K. M. Cantrell and J. D. Ingle, "The SLIM Spectrometer", Anal. Chem. 75(1) pp. 27–35 (2003).
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