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Jeremie Richard is a postdoctoral researcher within the Ozcan Research Group who is developing lensless microscopes designed to assess male fertility. He is designing a microscope that uses holograms and a small camera to create a detailed field of view, allowing for quick and inexpensive medical testing. The primary goals of his research are to design a device that is portable, small, and compact that can be used for semen sample analysis, studying cancer cells, or evaluating water quality. 

  • 3D printing is essential for prototyping, specific design, cheapest and most efficient to try out designs 
  • Either but optics table and build it all with parts available, expensive 
  • This way reprinting is easy

  • Used Lux Lab bc Ozcan 3D printer was overdone, and their support material leaves their prints looking messy (wax supports), wanted the nice finish of the resin printing 

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    Faculty Member(s) / Advisors

    • Jeremie Richard, visiting postdoctoral researcher from Institut d'Optique in France
    • Professor Aydogan Ozcan, Chancellor's Professor within the UCLA Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering 

    Challenges met

    Jeremie reached out to the Lux Lab in the Winter of 2018 because Ozcan's in-lab 3D printer was backed up with print requests for other projects, and he was at a point in his research that he needed to adjust prototype designs quickly and efficiently. 3D printing is essential for his research, as it allows him to develop different extremely specific designs cheaply. The only other way he could have created his prototypes is ordering customized parts from online optics suppliers, which would make it creating a prototype be a multi-week process. He reached out to us, and was able to use our Form 2 resin printer multiple times throughout the year. He ended up being happier with the resin prints compared to the Ozcan Lab's printer, as that printer uses wax for it's support material and it can be extremely difficult to remove and does not create an aesthetically pleasing result. He was extremely happy with the results he got from the Form 2, and was able to complete his research in a timely manner thanks to our services


    Pictures

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    titleOne of the lens-free microscope prototypes.


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    titleA light shines through the microscope's chamber onto a sample, creating a hologram beneath it that a small camera can capture for analysis.


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    titleJeremie primarily used Lux Lab services to create light chamber caps for the microscope.




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    DateSummer 2018